An Introduction to Effective Field Theory Journal Articles

abstract

• This review summarizes effective field theory techniques, which are the modern theoretical tools for exploiting the existence of hierarchies of scale in a physical problem. The general theoretical framework is described and evaluated explicitly for a simple model. Power-counting results are illustrated for a few cases of practical interest, and several applications to quantum electrodynamics are described.

authors

• Burgess, Clifford

status

• published 

publication date

• November 1, 2007

has subject area

• 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics (FoR)
• Nuclear & Particles Physics (Science Metrix)

published in

• Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science  Journal

keywords

• Physical Sciences
• Physics
• Physics, Nuclear
• Physics, Particles & Fields
• Science & Technology
• low-energy approximation
• power counting

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1146/annurev.nucl.56.080805.140508

start page

• 329

end page

• 362

volume

• 57

issue

• 1