Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory

2014/10/31 by Thomas Becher, Alessandro Broggio, Andrea Ferroglia · 80 citations
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published in Lecture notes in physics (Springer Science+Business Media) · 172 pages, 28 figures, 1 table. v3: corrected typos found by readers over the years

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Abstract

Among resummation techniques for perturbative QCD in the context of collider and flavor physics, soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) has emerged as both a powerful and versatile tool, having been a

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