Publications

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

1) The Standard Model: A Primer, C.P. Burgess and G.D. Moore, Cambridge University Press (2006 and updated 2013 to include the Higgs discovery): This graduate textbook uses the Standard Model of particle physics to introduce the techniques of Quantum Field Theory. The intention is to provide in this way both a practical introduction to calculating in field theory, and an introduction to the phenomenology of the Standard Model.

What they’re saying about The Standard Model: A Primer “The Standard Model is a bold, fresh book about attraction, force, unbridled energy and the world of international models. In a nutshell: anything but standard.”

 

2) Introduction to Effective Field Theories, C.P. Burgess, Cambridge University Press (to appear 2019): This graduate textbook develops thet tools of Effective Field Theory and provides applications of their use throughout a wide variety of physical situations. (Examples are drawn from particle physics, gravity, precision atomic physics, superconductivity, the quantum Hall effect, fluids and particles moving within media.) The intention is to provide in this way both a practical introduction to using effective field theory, and a sense of the unity of perspective that the EFT viewpoint brings to physics in general.

What they’re saying about Introduction to Effective Field Theories “History is replete with the names of those who have left their marks developing effective use of fields: from Napoleon’s genius on the battlefield to Tom Brady’s downfield coverage. This book draws on this rich history to attempt something bigger and more ambitious than all of these put together.  Perhaps the most effective use of fields since the agricultural revolution.”

 

ENCYCLOPAEDIA ARTICLES

1) Supersymmetry and Supergravity, C.P. Burgess, in the Encyclopedia of Physics (2nd Edition), VCH Publishers, New York, 1991; and Encyclopedia of Physics (3rd Edition), VCH Publishers, New York, 2004.

REVIEW ARTICLES

The following selected review articles are aimed both at the general public

1) String Cosmology: Cosmic Defects in the Lab, C.P. Burgess, Nature Physics 4 (2008) 11;

2) The Great Cosmic Roller-Coaster Ride, C.P. Burgess and F. Quevedo, Scientific American November 2007;

and at more specialized audiences

3) Intro to Effective Field Theories and Inflation, C.P. Burgess, in the proceedings of the Les Houches Summer School on Effective Field Theories in Particle Physics and Cosmology (arXiv:1711.10592);

4) The Cosmological Constant Problem: Why it is Hard to get Dark Energy from Micro-Physics, C.P. Burgess, in the proceedings of the Les Houches Summer School on Post-Planck Cosmology (arXiv:1309.4133);

5) Lectures on Cosmic Inflation and its Potential Stringy Realizations, C.P. Burgess, Classical and Quantum Gravity 24 (2007) S795-S852, and Proceedings of Science (arXiv:0708.2865);

6) Introduction to Effective Field Theory, C.P. Burgess, Annual Reviews of Nuclear and Particle Science 57 (2007) 329-362 (hep-th/0701053);

7) Quantum Gravity in Everyday Life: General Relativity as an Effective Field Theory, C.P. Burgess, Living Reviews in Relativity 7 (2004) 5, (gr-qc/0311082);

8) Goldstone and Pseudo-Goldstone Bosons in Nuclear, Particle and Condensed Matter Physics, C.P. Burgess, Physics Reports C330 (2000) 193-261 (hep-th/9808176).