Title: Effective Lagrangians for the Standard Model
Description: 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.
Subjects: Standard model (nuclear physics), Quantum field theory, Particles (nuclear physics), chirality, Quantum gravity, Quantum theory, Mathematical physics, Physics, Quantum Field Theory Elementary Particles, Mathematical Methods in Physics