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The QNP series of international conferences on Quarks and Nuclear
Physics is by now a well established and highly respected forum
where the most recent developments in the field are discussed and
communicated. QNP 2006 is the forth edition of this biennial
meeting. Selected and refereed original contributions of QNP 2006
have been published in The European Physical Journal A - Hadrons
and Nuclei (EPJ A), while the present proceedings book, in addition
to reprinting the articles published in EPJ A, further includes all
other contributions selected and accepted by the organizing
committee for publication and archiving.
This book is devoted to some recently developed techniques in
quantum field theory (QFT), as well as to their main applications
to different areas of parti cle physics. All together they are
known as the effective or phenomenological Lagrangian formalism.
Motivated by the enormous amount of work carried out in this field
during the last years, our purpose when writing this book has been
to give a modern and pedagogical exposition of the most relevant as
pects of the topic. We hope that our efforts will be useful, both
for graduated students in the search for a solid theoretical
background in modern phe nomenology and for more experimented
particle physicists willing to learn about this field or to start
working on it. Even though we have tried to keep the book as
self-contained as possible, it has been written assuming that the
reader is familiar, at least, with the most basic concepts and
techniques of QFT, gauge theories, the standard model (SM) and
differential geometry, at the level of graduate studies. It is
therefore possible that senior high-energy physicists may find the
book too detailed and so they could probably omit several sections.
The book is divided into two main parts and the appendices. In the
first part we introduce the fundamentals of the effective
Lagrangian formalism and other basic topics such as Ward
identities, non-linear sigma models (NLSM), spontaneous symmetry
breaking (SSB), anomalies, the SM symmetries, etc."
This book presents a detailed and pedagogical exposition of the
effective Lagrangian techniques and their applications to
high-energy physics. It covers the main theoretical ideas and
describes comprehensively how to use them in different fields, such
as chiral perturbation theory and the symmetry breaking sector of
the standard model and even low-energy quantum gravity. The book is
written in the language of modern quantum field theory. Some of the
theoretical topics treated are: decoupling, the Goldstone theorem,
the non-linear sigma model, anomalies, the Wess--Zumino--Witten
term, and the equivalence theorem.
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