Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

Becher, Thomas; Broggio, Alessandro; Ferroglia, Andrea (2015). Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory [Textbook] . Lecture Notes in Physics: Vol. 896. Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-319-14848-9

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Among resummation techniques for perturbative QCD in the context of collider and flavor physics, soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) has emerged as both a powerful and versatile tool, having been applied to a large variety of processes, from B-meson decays to jet production at the LHC.
This book provides a concise, pedagogical introduction to this technique. It discusses the expansion of Feynman diagrams around the high-energy limit, followed by the explicit construction of the effective Lagrangian - first for a scalar theory, then for QCD. The underlying concepts are illustrated with the quark vector form factor at large momentum transfer, and the formalism is applied to compute soft-gluon resummation and to perform transverse-momentum resummation for the Drell-Yan process utilizing renormalization group evolution in SCET. Finally, the infrared structure of n-point gauge-theory amplitudes is analyzed by relating them to effective-theory operators.
This text is suitable for graduate students and non-specialist researchers alike as it requires only basic knowledge of perturbative QCD.

Item Type:	Book (Textbook)
Division/Institute:	10 Strategic Research Centers > Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC) 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Theoretical Physics
UniBE Contributor:	Becher, Thomas
Subjects:	500 Science > 530 Physics
ISBN:	978-3-319-14847-2
Series:	Lecture Notes in Physics
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Language:	English
Submitter:	Esther Fiechter
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2015 08:31
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 14:49
Publisher DOI:	10.1007/978-3-319-14848-9
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/71329