Topical Lectures "Effective Field Theories" in Groningen

Apr 12, 2023, 9:30 AM → Apr 14, 2023, 5:00 PM Europe/Amsterdam

RUG academiegebouw

Wednesday, April 12

10:30 AM → 12:40 PM General Introductions to EFTs: Part 1

10:30 AM General Introduction to EFTs

Lagrangians, power counting

Speaker: Rob Timmermans (University of Groningen)

11:20 AM Coffee/Tea Break

11:50 AM General Introduction to EFTs

Quantum corrections

Speaker: Rob Timmermans (University of Groningen)

12:40 PM → 5:00 PM General Introductions to EFTs: Part 2

12:40 PM Lunch

2:00 PM Exercise and Discussion Session

Dimensions of operators, curvature, Einstein-Hilbert action and extensions

Speaker: Rob Timmermans (University of Groningen)

2:45 PM Coffee/Tea Brak

3:10 PM General Introduction to EFTs

RG flow

Speaker: Elisabetha Pallante

Pallante_LectureRG.pdf

4:00 PM Exercise and Discussion Session

Speaker: Elisabetha Pallante

Exercises TL2023 Pallante.pdf

Topics and Solutions TL2023 Pallante.pdf

6:30 PM → 9:30 PM Dinner

Thursday, April 13

9:30 AM → 5:05 PM EFTs for LHC experiments

9:30 AM Energy scales in the Standard Model and beyond

Speaker: Daniel Boer (Van Swinderen Institute, RUG)

Topical Lectures Scales Lecture 2023 red.pdf

10:20 AM Coffee/Tea Break

10:40 AM Message from the PhD Council

Speaker: Gijs van Weelden

PhD lunch April 2023.pdf

10:50 AM Application of EFTs for B physics

Speaker: Kristof de Bruijn

Topic_Lecture_EFT_Flavour.pdf

11:40 AM Lunch

1:00 PM SMEFT and constraints from colliders

Part 1

Speaker: Juan Rojo

2:00 PM SMEFT and constraints from colliders

Part 2

Speaker: Juan Rojo

2:50 PM Coffee/Tea Break

3:20 PM Hands-on session: SMEFiT

Speakers: Juan Rojo, Tommaso Giani

tutorial

tutorial solutions

5:30 PM → 9:30 PM PhD Council Presents: Bowling & Dinner

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Speaker: Maria Domenica Galati (Van Swinderen Institute, University of Groningen)

PhD lunch April 2023.pdf

Friday, April 14

9:30 AM → 3:30 PM EFTs for non-accelerator experiments

9:30 AM Gravity as an EFT

Resources:
- Gravity and EFT: arXiv:hep-ph/9512287 (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9512287)
- Massive gravity: arXiv:1105.3735 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3735)
- EFTs for Black Hole binaries: arXiv:1908.01493 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01493)

Speaker: Diederik Roest (Groningen)

10:20 AM Coffee/Tea Break

10:50 AM The EFT of the Big Bang

For a pedagogical summary on EFTs for inflation, see arXiv:0804.4291 (https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.4291)
For a more historical perspective on the development of EFTs, see arXiv:0908.1964 (https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1964)

Speaker: Matteo Fasiello (IFT Madrid)

11:40 AM Lunch

1:00 PM EFT studies of EDMs

Speaker: Jordy de Vries

RUG_EDM_JdeVries_2023.pdf

2:00 PM EDM experiments using cold molecules & lab tour

Speakers: Lorenz Willmann (VSI, RuG), Steven Hoekstra (University of Groningen, and Nikhef)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Summary Q&A Session

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Drinks