[Postgrad] Online Reading group

[Shirley Wylie]

Hello,

I am a third-year Ph.D. student in neutrino theory at UCL, and I am organising a reading group for the 2020 CUP book "Introduction to Effective Field Theory: Thinking Effectively about Hierarchies of Scale"<https://www-cambridge-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/core/books/introduction-to-effective-field-theory/A9CDB35F4AA7921E3A9CFD573EBA8B64>, by McMaster/Perimeter Prof. C. P. Burgess. As the reading group will be conducted online, and as effective field theory is a tool which finds use across many specialities in physics and beyond, I would like to invite participants from all institutions to take part.

If you would like to participate or find out more, please send an email to me at ucapgwg at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:ucapgwg at ucl.ac.uk>. The group will meet weekly on Zoom, beginning with an (optional) introductions and goals-setting meeting on Thursday 14 October at 16:00 BST, and embarking properly on the content on Thursday 21 October at the same time. The session leader role will rotate (flexibly) between all participants, although I will lead these first two sessions. An overview session of necessary QFT prerequisites, in particular renormalisation, will also be scheduled next week for anyone who would like a review. A first course in QFT covering basic Lagrangian mechanics, Feynman rules up through QED, and renormalisation is likely necessary for understanding the text, and familiarity with any of gauge theories, generating functionals, or dimensional regularisation will be helpful. Students are encouraged to discuss their participation with their supervisor(s).

This textbook, aimed at the postgraduate level, is both a conceptual and practical introduction to EFT methods. In Part I, it develops the theoretical building blocks such as effective actions, power counting and matching, and nonlinear realisations of symmetry groups, which are common to all EFTs. The remaining 2/3 of the text are devoted to systematic overviews of the most widespread and successful EFTs, including relativistic theories (QCD/ChPT, SMEFT, GREFT), nonrelativistic theories (NRQED, PPEFT, HQET), and many-body phenomena (phonons/magnons, superconductivity, quantum-Hall, mean field theory). One exclusion is Soft Collinear Effective Theory.

Best regards,
Graham Van Goffrier



Kind Regards
Shirley
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