Introduction......Page 9
The Electroweak Sector......Page 11
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs-Kibble mechanism......Page 15
Quark Mixing and CP Violation......Page 16
The Strong Sector......Page 18
Effective Field Theories of the Standard Model......Page 19
Chiral Symmetry......Page 20
The Chiral Expansion......Page 24
Chiral Electroweak Lagrangians......Page 27
Motivation......Page 29
Large--NC QCD......Page 30
The Double-Line Notation and Planarity......Page 31
Mesons in Large--NC QCD: selection rules......Page 32
Two-dimensional Large--NC QCD: the 't Hooft model......Page 34
Large-NC PT......Page 35
The Minimal Hadronic Approximation......Page 36
A chiral Lagrangian with Resonance fields......Page 38
Prediction for L10 beyond leading order......Page 46
Phenomenology of kaon CP-Violation......Page 51
K0-0 mixing......Page 52
Kaon non-leptonic weak decays......Page 54
S=1 transitions......Page 56
S=2 transitions......Page 58
The Problem of Matching in Nonleptonic Weak Interactions......Page 61
Lowest order Lagrangian......Page 63
B"0362BK with leading short distance OPE constraints......Page 65
Inclusion of next-to-leading short distance constraints on WLRLR......Page 71
Determination of K2......Page 73
Numerical results for B"0362BK......Page 76
Corrections to the S=2 Lagrangian in inverse powers of the charm mass......Page 79
Numerical analysis for MK and K.......Page 89
Motivation......Page 92
A toy model for duality violations......Page 93
1/NC corrections......Page 101
Finite Energy Sum Rules......Page 106
Other approaches......Page 107
Modelling duality violations......Page 109
Conclusions......Page 112
SU(3) algebra......Page 114
Fierz transformations......Page 115
The background field method......Page 117
The Schwinger formalism......Page 118
Dimension six and dimension eight operators in the weak OPE......Page 119
Determination of dimension eight operators in the 1/mc2 expansion......Page 121
Bernoulli Polynomials......Page 123
Bernoulli numbers......Page 125