Effective field theories II

Anno accademico 2025/2026
Docente Enrico Trincherini

Modalità d'esame

<p>Esame Orale</p>

Prerequisiti

Il corso sarà rivolto agli allievi del IV Anno. 

Prerequisiti necessari: Fisica Teorica 1, Effective Field Theories part I

Programma insegnamento

General Relativity as an Effective Field Theory

Renormalization Group flows, fixed points and critical surfaces

The naturalness of the electroweak scale

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Goldstone Theorem

Non-linear realization of space-time symmetries 

The Effective Field Theory of Inflation


Riferimenti bibliografici

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

Daniel Baumann, Liam McAllister - Inflation and String Theory