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These lectures introduce some of the basic ideas of effective field theories. The topics discussed include: relevant and irrelevant operators and scaling, renormalization in effective field theories, decoupling of heavy particles, power counting, and naive dimensional analysis. Effective Lagrangians are used to study the ΔS=2 weak interactions and chiral perturbation theory.
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Manohar, A.V. (1977). Effective field theories. In: Latal, H., Schweiger, W. (eds) Perturbative and Nonperturbative Aspects of Quantum Field Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 479. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0104294
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