An Introduction to Universality and Renormalization Group Techniques
by Alessandro Sfondrini
Publisher: arXiv 2012
Number of pages: 72
Description:
These lecture notes have been written for a short introductory course on universality and renormalization group techniques given at the VIII Modave School in Mathematical Physics by the author, intended for PhD students and researchers new to these topics.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(1.2MB, PDF)
Similar books
The Universe in a Helium Dropletby Grigory E. Volovik - Oxford University Press
There are fundamental relations between two vast areas of physics: particle physics and cosmology (micro- and macro-worlds). The main goal of this book is to establish and define the connection of these two fields with condensed matter physics.
(18878 views)
Semi-Simple Lie Algebras and Their Representationsby Robert N. Cahn - The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing
Designed to acquaint students of particle physics with techniques applicable to all simple Lie algebras, this text is especially suited to the study of grand unification theories. Subjects include simple roots and the Cartan matrix, and more.
(11335 views)
Collider Physics within the Standard Model: a Primerby Guido Altarelli - arXiv
These are graduate lecture notes on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and the theory of Electroweak (EW) Interactions, with main focus on Collider Physics. I hope that these lectures can provide an introduction to the subject for the interested reader.
(7851 views)
Non-Abelian Discrete Symmetries in Particle Physicsby Hajime Ishimori, at al. - arXiv
The authors review pedagogically non-Abelian discrete groups, which play an important role in the particle physics. They show group-theoretical aspects for many concrete groups, such as representations, their tensor products.
(11675 views)