Effective Field Theory FAQ

General Questions

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Course Questions

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1) Introduction to EFT 

2) Standard Model as an EFT

3) Field Redefinitions

4) Loops, Renormalization, and Matching

5) Renormalization Group Equations

6) Chiral Lagrangians

7) HQET Basics

8) HQET Power Corrections

9) Renormalons

10) EFT with a Fine Tuning

11) Soft-Collinear EFT

12) Symmetries & Factorization in SCET

13) Resummation of Logs in SCET

14) e⁺e^- to dijets

15) Interactions in SCET II