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The Notion of Effective Lagrangian

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Effective Lagrangians for the Standard Model

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In this chapter we try to give a motivation for the study of effective La-grangians, as well as a brief introduction to their main features. We also discuss the important notion of decoupling and analyze the cases in which this property holds.

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  1. Departamento de Física Teórica Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Complutense, E-28040, Madrid, Spain

    Professor Antonio Dobado, Dr. Angel Gómez-Nicola, Dr. Antonio L. Maroto & Dr. José R. Peláez

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Dobado, A., Gómez-Nicola, A., Maroto, A.L., Peláez, J.R. (1997). The Notion of Effective Lagrangian. In: Effective Lagrangians for the Standard Model. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59191-4_1

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