14–17 Jan 2019
IST, Lisboa, Portugal
Europe/Lisbon timezone

Non-renormalizable interactions of the Standard Model fields

15 Jan 2019, 16:30
20m
Anfiteatro Abreu Faro (IST, Lisboa, Portugal)

Anfiteatro Abreu Faro

IST, Lisboa, Portugal

Av Rovisco Pais 1049-001 Lisboa Portugal

Speaker

Renato Fonseca (IPNP, Charles University, Prague)

Description

The Standard Model fields can interact through non-renormalizable operators, the simplest of which is the one mentioned by Weinberg, with dimension 5. The list of all such operators up to dimension 6 is known and, since the last few years, so is the number of all effective interactions up to dimension 15. However, counting operators and listing them explicitly are different things. In this presentation I will talk about the challenges associated with writing down the non-renormalizable interactions of Standard Model fields beyond dimension 6.

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