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Instructors: Carlo Pagani
Event type:
Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
08.128.809
Hours per week:
4
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
Prerequisites:
Electromagnetism (Theo 2), quantum mechanics (Theo 3 & 5), quantum field theory (Theo 6a).
Students are expected to understand the basics of Feynman diagrams, calculation of matrix elements for scattering processes involving fermions, scalars, and vectors, Wick rotation, and Gaussian integrals.
Contents:
Topics:
path integral formalism;
generating functional and correlation functions;
renormalization;
renormalization in QED;
renormalization group;
non-Abelian gauge theories;
quantum chromodynamics (QCD);
spontaneous symmetry breaking;
Higgs mechanism;
standard model of particle physics.
Recommended reading list:
Primary references:
Michael Peskin, Daniel Schroeder
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Westview Press, 1995, ISBN 0-201-50397-2.
Matthew D Schwartz
Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN: 1107034736.
Further references and material will be given during the course.
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