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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Effective Field Theory

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MITx Online

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8.EFTx is a graduate course on Effective Field Theory (EFT), which provides a fundamental framework to describe physical systems with quantum field theory. For residential students it is listed as 8.851.

Syllabus

  • The Standard Model as an effective field theory
  • Integrating out the massive W, Z, Higgs, and top, chiral perturbation theory,
  • Non-relativistic effective field theories including those with a large scattering length,
  • Static sources and Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET),
  • A theory for collider physics, the Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET)

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