Effective Lagrangians For The Standard Model

This book is devoted to some recently developed techniques in quantum field theory (QFT), as well as to their main applications to different areas of parti cle physics. All together they are known as the effective or phenomenological Lagrangian formalism. Motivated by the enormous amount of work carried out in this field during the last years, our purpose when writing this book has been to give a modern and pedagogical exposition of the most relevant as pects of the topic. We hope that our efforts will be useful, both for graduated students in the search for a solid theoretical background in modern phe nomenology and for more experimented particle physicists willing to learn about this field or to start working on it. Even though we have tried to keep the book as self-contained as possible, it has been written assuming that the reader is familiar, at least, with the most basic concepts and techniques of QFT, gauge theories, the standard model (SM) and differential geometry, at the level of graduate studies. It is therefore possible that senior high-energy physicists may find the book too detailed and so they could probably omit several sections. The book is divided into two main parts and the appendices. In the first part we introduce the fundamentals of the effective Lagrangian formalism and other basic topics such as Ward identities, non-linear sigma models (NLSM), spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB), anomalies, the SM symmetries, etc.

Focusing on the techniques by which the model can produce information about real observed phenomena, this book provides a detailed account of the Standard Model of particle physics. Following an account of the theory, the major part of the text is concerned with its application to the calculation of physical properties of particles.

An introduction to symmetry breaking in the standard model / Edward Farhi -- Physics beyond the standard model / Jonathan A. Bagger -- Chiral effective Lagrangians / Heinrich Leutwyler -- Towards semi-classical string theory / Jeffrey A. Harvey -- Renormalization of electroweak gauge interactions / Dallas C. Kennedy -- Electroweak experiments at LEP / Alain Blondel -- The CKM matrix and CP violation / Yosef Nir -- Axion searches / Pierre Sikivie -- Lattice QCD / Andreas S. Kronfeld -- Introduction to perturbative QCD / George Sterman -- Heavy quark effective field theory / Howard Georgi -- Heavy flavor physics on the lattice / Estia Eichten -- Two lectures on neutrinos / Pierre Ramond

Contents:Classical Structures in the Electroweak Theory (J Baacke)The Anomalous Effective Action of QCD (J Bijnens)Nonlocal Effective Field Theory (H Georgi)ππ and πK Scattering in Chiral Perturbation Theory (N Kaiser)The Generalized Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Mechanism and the Standard Model (J Kuti)Restoration of Chiral Symmetry (H Leutwyler)Photo-Nucleon Processes in Chiral Perturbation Theory (U-G Meiβner)The Confinement and Localization of Quarks (J Polonyi)Effective Lagrangians and the Proton Matrix Element of the Axial Singlet Current (J Schechter et al.)Baryon Chiral Perturbation Theory (E Jenkins & A V Manohar)Light Quark Masses Beyond Leading Order (D Wyler)Top Quark Condensate (K Yamawaki)and other papers Readership: High energy physicists. keywords:

This 2006 book uses the standard model as a vehicle for introducing quantum field theory.

This 2014 edition, now OA, provides a detailed and practical account of the Standard Model of particle physics.