Wintersemester 2015/16

Jun. Prof. Dr. A. Kulesza

 

Selected Topics In Quantum Field Theory

Lecture

Friday 10.15am-11.45 am

KP 304

 

Lecture contents:

• Introduction to effective field theories (EFT)

• Soft-collinear effective field theory

• IR divergencies in QFT: general properties

• Infrared safety and the soft approximation

• Factorization

• Resummation

• Parton showers

 

Literature

M. Peskin and D. Schroeder, "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory".

G. Sterman, "An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory".

J. Collins, "Foundations of perturbative QCD".

T. Becher, A. Broggio and A. Ferroglia,  "Introduction to soft-collinear effective field theory", arXiv:1410.1892

A. Pich, "Effective Field Theory", arXiv:hep-ph/9806303.