Effective lagrangians for the standard model

This book presents a detailed and pedagogical exposition of the effective Lagrangian techniques and their applications to high-energy physics. It covers the main theoretical ideas and describes comprehensively how to use them in different fields, such as chiral perturbation theory and the symmetry breaking sector of the standard model and even low-energy quantum gravity. The book is written in the language of modern quantum field theory. Some of the theoretical topics treated are: decoupling, the Goldstone theorem, the non-linear sigma model, anomalies, the Wess--Zumino--Witten term, and the equivalence theorem. TOC: From the contents: The Notion of Effective Lagrangian.- Global Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory.- The Non-linear o Model.- Anomalies.- The Symmetries of the Standard Model.- The Effective Lagrangian for QCD.- The Standard Model Symmetry Breaking Sector.- Gravity and the Standard Model.- Appendices A: Useful Formulae and Notation.- B: Notes on Differential Geometry.- C: Aspects of Quantum Field Theory.- D: Unitarity and Partial Waves.