Effective field theories and applications to non-relativistic QCD

Andre Hoang
Max-Planck Institut für Physik, Werner-Heisenberg-Institut, München

Effective theories have proven to be a very useful tool in the systematic understanding of quantum chromodynamics in domains where the dynamics is still partly governed by perturbation theory. Effective theory methods are also used in many other areas of particle physics. The lecture will give a basic introduction into the concepts, technicalities and applications of effective theories with some emphasis on quantum chromodynamics and heavy quark physics.

Preliminary list of topics:

• MSbar renormalization
• Renormalization group in Phi^4 theory, Triviality
• Running of couplings in QCD and flavor thresholds
• Unification of couplings in supersymmetric theories
• Asymptotic expansion
• Concepts of effective theories
• Chiral perturbation theory
• Fermi theory
• HQET, NRQCD (NRQED)
• Soft-collinear effective theory (SCET)
• Effective theory and nuclear physics