Heavy Quark Effective Theory

This up-to-date review also serves as an introduction to Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) - a new approach to heavy quark physics problems in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Heavy quark physics is one of the most active areas of high-energy physics, especially at this time when B-factories at SLAC and KEK are producing high-quality results, and yet other facilities are being developed. HQET has already led to significant progress in our understanding of heavy quark physics during the last 10 years. The book also contains a detailed discussion of the methods of calculation used in HQET, along with numerous illustrations.

List of contents

Hadrons with a Heavy Quark.- HQET Lagrangian.- Renormalization.- HQET Lagrangian 1/m Corrections.- Heavy-Light Currents.- Heavy-Light Currents: 1/m Corrections.- Heavy-Heavy Currents.- Renormalons in HQET.

Summary

This up-to-date review also serves as an introduction to Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET) - a new approach to heavy quark physics problems in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). Heavy quark physics is one of the most active areas of high-energy physics, especially at this time when B-factories at SLAC and KEK are producing high-quality results, and yet other facilities are being developed. HQET has already led to significant progress in our understanding of heavy quark physics during the last 10 years. The book also contains a detailed discussion of the methods of calculation used in HQET, along with numerous illustrations.

Product details

• Authors: Andrey G Grozin, Andrey G. Grozin
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2013
• EAN: 9783662144398
• ISBN: 978-3-662-14439-8
• No. of pages: 213
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 12 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 347 g
• Illustrations: X, 213 p.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics; Springer Tracts in Modern Physics; Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Ergebnisse der exakten Naturwissenschaften
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; C, Teilchen- und Hochenergiephysik, Nuclear physics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Physics and Astronomy, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Quantum field theory, Elementary particles (Physics), Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory