Light-Shell Theory Foundations

We study the motivation and groundwork for the construction of a Light-Shell Effective Theory, an effective field theory for describing the matter emerging from high-energy collisions and the accompanying radiation. We begin in chapter 2 with a simple electrodynamics calculation to motivate the p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kestin, Gregory Michael
Other Authors: Georgi, Howard
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
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Online Access:http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11596
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274208