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  • C. P. Burgess, McMaster University and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2020
Print publication year:
2020
Online ISBN:
9781139048040
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139048040
Subjects:
Particle Physics and Nuclear Physics, Physics and Astronomy, Condensed Matter Physics, Nanoscience and Mesoscopic Physics
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Book description

Using examples from across the sub-disciplines of physics, this introduction shows why effective field theories are the language in which physical laws are written. The tools of effective field theory are demonstrated using worked examples from areas including particle, nuclear, atomic, condensed matter and gravitational physics. To bring the subject within reach of scientists with a wide variety of backgrounds and interests, there are clear physical explanations, rigorous derivations, and extensive appendices on background material, such as quantum field theory. Starting from undergraduate-level quantum mechanics, the book gets to state-of-the-art calculations using both relativistic and nonrelativistic few-body and many-body examples, and numerous end-of-chapter problems derive classic results not covered in the main text. Graduate students and researchers in particle physics, condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, string theory, and mathematical physics more generally, will find this book ideal for both self-study and for organized courses on effective field theory.

Awards

Winner, 2022 PROSE Award for Chemistry and Physics

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‘This book can serve as a reference work for graduate students of theoretical physics as well as a professional reference … Recommended.’

M. O. Farooq Source: Choice

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  • 1 - Decoupling and Hierarchies of Scale
    pp 5-17
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