Overview
- First introductory text on the subject matter
- Course-based and self-contained presentation
- Authored by leading researchers in the field
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 896)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Among resummation techniques for perturbative QCD in the context of collider and flavor physics, soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) has emerged as both a powerful and versatile tool, having been applied to a large variety of processes, from B-meson decays to jet production at the LHC.
This book provides a concise, pedagogical introduction to this technique. It discusses the expansion of Feynman diagrams around the high-energy limit, followed by the explicit construction of the effective Lagrangian - first for a scalar theory, then for QCD. The underlying concepts are illustrated with the quark vector form factor at large momentum transfer, and the formalism is applied to compute soft-gluon resummation and to perform transverse-momentum resummation for the Drell-Yan process utilizing renormalization group evolution in SCET. Finally, the infrared structure of n-point gauge-theory amplitudes is analyzed by relating them to effective-theory operators.
This text is suitable for graduate students and non-specialist researchers alike as it requires only basic knowledge of perturbative QCD.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory
Authors: Thomas Becher, Alessandro Broggio, Andrea Ferroglia
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14848-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14847-2Published: 09 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14848-9Published: 04 March 2015
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 206
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory