Course on Effective Field Theories

por David Kaplan (Institute of Nuclear Theory, U. Washington, Seattle and IFT, UAM)

martes 22 abr. 2008 10:30 → 11:30 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

Effective field theory is a powerful tool for understanding how to extract as much information as possible from a quantum mechanical system being examined with limited resolution. Among the examples I give: how to understand why blue light scatters in air more strongly than red light, why Cooper pairs form in a superconductor on length scales many times the inter-atomic spacing, how baryon number can be well conserved in the standard model and yet violated in the early universe, and what we can tell about the quark masses from pions and kaons.
22, 23 y 24 Abril 10:30->12:30 @ IFIC seminar room