Effective Field Theories in Flavour Physics

By: Thomas Mannel

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Hardcover | 1 January 2005

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The book constitutes a compact review of the applications of effective field theory methods in flavour physics, with emphasis on heavy quark physics. Some of the relevant applications are discussed to illustrate the method.

It covers the full range of theoretical tools related to the application of the effective field theory idea: Starting from the weak interactions as an effective theory derived from the standard model, well-established methods such as heavy quark effective theory, the heavy quark mass expansion and chiral perturbation theory are addressed. Also more recent ideas such as QCD factorization and soft collinear effective theory are outlined.

Finally the standard model itself is viewed as an effective theory, allowing a model-independent look at the results of the new physics. The book should be useful for the advanced graduate student as well as for scientists who are interested in the theoretical toolkit used in the context of flavour physics. It is not meant as a complete review of the subject, rather it should be useful as an introduction to the basic ideas.

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Introduction	p. 1
Historical Remarks	p. 1
Importance of Flavour Physics	p. 6
Scope of the Book	p. 7
References	p. 8
Flavour in the Standard Model	p. 11
Basics of the Standard Model	p. 11
The Higgs Sector and Yukawa Couplings	p. 13
Neutrino Masses and Lepton Mixing	p. 17
References	p. 20
The CKM Matrix and CP Violation	p. 23
The CKM Matrix in the Standard Model	p. 23
CP Violation and Unitarity Triangles	p. 24
The CKM Matrix and the Fermion Mass Spectrum	p. 29
References	p. 31
Effective Field Theories	p. 33
What Are Effective Field Theories?	p. 33
Fermi's Theory as an Effective Field Theory	p. 41
Heavy-Quark Effective Theory	p. 45
Heavy-Quark Symmetries	p. 49
Heavy-Quark Expansion for Inclusive Decays	p. 54
Twist Expansion for Heavy-Hadron Decays	p. 58
Soft-Collinear Effective Field Theory	p. 64
Chiral Perturbation Theory	p. 71
References	p. 74
Applications I: ¿F = 1 Processes	p. 79
¿F = 1 Effective Hamiltonian	p. 79
Effective Hamiltonian for Semileptonic Processes	p. 79
Effective Hamiltonian for Non-Leptonic Processes	p. 80
Electroweak Penguins	p. 87
Radiative and (Semi)leptonic Flavour-Changing Neutral-Current Processes	p. 89
Remarks on ¿D = 1 Processes: Pions and Nucleons	p. 95
¿S = 1 Processes: Kaon Physics	p. 98
Leptonic and Semileptonic Kaon Decays	p. 98
Non-Leptonic Kaon Decays	p. 100
¿B = 1 Processes: B Physics	p. 104
Exclusive Semileptonic Decays	p. 104
Inclusive Semileptonic Decays	p. 108
Lifetimes of B^±, B⁰ and B_b	p. 113
FCNC Decays of B Mesons	p. 117
Exclusive Non-Leptonic Decays	p. 122
References	p. 127
Applications II: ¿F = 2 Processes and CP Violation	p. 131
CP Symmetry in the Standard Model	p. 131
¿F = 2 Processes: Particle-Antiparticle Mixing	p. 134
Mixing in the Kaon System	p. 137
Mixing in the B₀-Meson System	p. 139
Mixing in the D₀-Meson System	p. 141
Phenomenology of CP Violation: Kaons	p. 143
Phenomenology of CP Violation: B Mesons	p. 145
References	p. 154
Beyond the Standard Model	p. 157
The Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory	p. 159
Flavour in Models Beyond the Standard Model	p. 161
References	p. 166
Prospects	p. 167
Current and Future Experiments	p. 167
Theoretical Perspectives	p. 169
References	p. 171
Index	p. 173
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