The following lecture notes cover the lectures on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. The lecture notes make reference to several papers, the citations for which appear below the table. For a single file containing all of the notes, download the Notes on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. (PDF)
Lec # | SUBtopics | references |
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22 | Introduction, Degrees of Freedom, Scales, Expansion of Spinors, Propogators, Power Counting (PDF) | [2], [3] |
23 | Construction of Currents, Lagrangian Multipole Expansion, Labels, Grid in Detail (not in notes) (PDF) | [2], [3], [10] |
24 | SCET_I Lagrangian, Gauge Symmetry, Reparameterization Invariance (RPI) (PDF) | [3], [1], [6] |
25 | More RPI, Ultrasoft-Collinear Factorization, Hard-Collinear Factorization, Infrared Divergences, Matching, Running (PDF) | [4], [1], [2], [3] |
26 | DIS, Soft-Collinear Interactions (PDF) | For DIS see [8] For Soft-Collinear Interactions see [4] |
27 | SCET_II, Power Counting Formulae, Examples, Define a Jet (PDF) | Fro SCET_II see [4], [7], [10] For Power Counting see [5] For examples see [8], [9], [4] For Jets see [4], [11], [12] |
The links below are to abstracts of the corresponding scientific papers.
References
[1] Bauer, C. W., S. Fleming, and M. Luke (University of Toronto). "Summing Sudakov logarithms in B -> X_s + gamma in effective field theory." Physics Review D63 (2001): 014006.
[2] Bauer, Christian W., Sean Fleming, Dan Pirjol, and Iain W. Stewart. "An effective field theory for collinear and soft gluons: heavy to light decays." Physical Review D63 (2001): 114020.
[3] Bauer, Christian W., and Iain W. Stewart. "Invariant Operators in Collinear Effective Theory." Physics Letters B516 (2001): 134.
[4] Bauer, Christian W., Dan Pirjol, and Iain W. Stewart. "Soft-Collinear Factorization in Effective Field Theory." Physical Review D65 (2002): 054022.
[5] Bauer, Christian W., Dan Pirjol, and Iain W. Stewart. "Power Counting in the Soft-Collinear Effective Theory." Physical Review D66 (2002): 054005.
[6] Manohar, Aneesh V., Thomas Mehen, Dan Pirjol, and Iain W. Stewart. "Reparameterization Invariance for Collinear Operators." Physics Letters B539 (2002): 59.
[7] Bauer, Christian W., Dan Pirjol, and Iain W. Stewart. "On Power Suppressed Operators and Gauge Invariance in SCET." Physical Review D68 (2003): 034021.
[8] Bauer, Christian W., Sean Fleming, Dan Pirjol, Ira Z. Rothstein, and Iain W. Stewart. "Hard Scattering Factorization from Effective Field Theory." Physical Review D66 (2002): 014017.
[9] Bauer, Christian W., Dan Pirjol, and Iain W. Stewart. "A proof of factorization for B -> D pi." Physical Review Letters 87 (2001): 201806.
[10] Manohar, Aneesh V., and Iain W. Stewart. "The Zero-Bin and Mode Factorization in Quantum Field Theory." 2006.
[11] Bauer, Christian W., Aneesh V. Manohar, and Mark B. Wise. "Enhanced nonperturbative effects in jet distributions." Physical Review Letters 91 (2003): 122001.
[12] Sterman, George. An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780521322584 (hardback), 9780521311328 (pbk.).
Lee, Christopher, and George Sterman. "Universality of Nonperturbative Effects in Event Shapes." 2006.