Effective field theories I

Academic year 2025/2026
Lecturer Enrico Trincherini

Examination procedure

<p>Oral exam</p>

Prerequisites

The course is designed for fourth-year master’s students.

Prerequisite: An introductory course in Quantum Field Theory.

Syllabus

The building blocks of the Standard Model 

Representations of the Lorentz group: Particles vs Fields

Long-range forces: gauge invariance from Lorentz invariance

Effective Field Theories and Renormalisation 

The electroweak chiral Lagrangian and the Higgs boson

Bibliographical references

Steven Weinberg - The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume 1, 2 

Matthew Schwartz - Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

Riccardo Barbieri - Lectures on the Electroweak Interactions