Emergent gauge symmetries in particle physics and cosmology

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Standard Model: Gauge Symmetries in Particle Physics
	2.1 Quantum Electrodynamics
		2.1.1 Global and discrete symmetries
		2.1.2 Running couplings
		2.1.3 Precision QED
	2.2 Non-abelian Quantum Chromodynamics
		2.2.1 Asymptotic freedom
		2.2.2 Gluon topology
		2.2.3 QCD Phenomenology: Confinement Physics
	2.3 The Standard Model and Higgs Phenomena
		2.3.1 Massive gauge bosons and the BEH mechanism
		2.3.2 The Standard Model
		2.3.3 CP violation and the electron EDM
Chapter 3. Vacuum Stability and Running Couplings
Chapter 4. Renormalisation and Quantum Field Theory Anomalies
	4.1 Renormalisation Group
	4.2 Symmetries and Ultraviolet Regularisation
	4.3 The Axial Anomaly
		4.3.1 Anomaly cancellation in the Standard Model
		4.3.2 Definitions of chirality and baryon number
		4.3.3 Baryon number and the axial anomaly
Chapter 5. Emergent Gauge Symmetries and Particle Physics
	5.1 An Emergent Standard Model
		5.1.1 Renormalisation group decoupling and spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry
		5.1.2 Composite gauge boson models and the LHC
	5.2 The Weinberg–Witten Theorem and Emergent Gauge Bosons
	5.3 The Standard Model in a Low-Energy Expansion
		5.3.1 Neutrino masses
		5.3.2 Proton decays and baryon number violation
		5.3.3 The Pauli term in QED and the eEDM
		5.3.4 Axions and the strong CP puzzle
		5.3.5 Summary
Chapter 6. Emergent Gauge Symmetries in Quantum Condensed Matter Systems
	6.1 The Fermi–Hubbard Model and Its Low Energy Limit
	6.2 Fermi Points and Emergent Gauge Symmetries in Superfluid 3He-A
	6.3 String-net Condensation
Chapter 7. Gravitation and General Relativity
	7.1 General Relativity
	7.2 Tests of General Relativity
		7.2.1 Equivalence principle
		7.2.2 Double pulsars and gravitational radiation
		7.2.3 Gravitational lensing
	7.3 Black Holes
	7.4 Gravitational Waves
	7.5 Quantum Gravity?
Chapter 8. Cosmology: The Interface of Particle Physics and Gravitation
	8.1 Cosmology and the Expanding Universe
	8.2 Dark Energy and the Λ-CDM Model
	8.3 Observations
	8.4 Dark Matter Hints and Constraints
Chapter 9. Vacuum Energy and the Cosmological Constant
Chapter 10. Scale Hierarchies
	10.1 Structure of the Cosmological Constant
		10.1.1 Zero-point energies
		10.1.2 Interpreting ρΛ
	10.2 The Higgs Mass
Chapter 11. Emergence and Open Puzzles
	11.1 Neutrino Masses
	11.2 Baryogenesis
	11.3 Dark Matter Candidates
		11.3.1 Galaxy properties
		11.3.2 Common geodesics
Chapter 12. Conclusions
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