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Instructors: Mikhail Gorshteyn
Event type:
online: Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
08.128.165
Hours per week:
6
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
The course will be fully online.
Link: https://zoom.us/j/3815135633?pwd=bWIvcmlxM0VXaGxTWnUyUWo5R3J1dz09
Recomended textbooks: Peskin&Schröder, Schwartz, Weinberg, Zee.
I will not be following any book to the letter but respective chapters in those books might be helpful.
I will cover
Classical Field Theory (as introduction)
Canonical quantization
Scalar fields
Interacting fields
Dirac fields
Some aspects of renormalization
I will aim at spending some time elaborating actual calculations which students may find useful.
There will be two online lectures a week (Mo, Wed 10:15 - 12:00), plus 2 hours tutorial, the day will be agreed upon.
Recommended reading list:
Main book will be "Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model", by Matthew D. Schwartz
It is a modern, very clearly written and accurate representation of QFT
I will also now and then use "Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell", by Anthony Zee
It is a good read, pedagogically laid out.
As one application of scalar phi3 quantum theory and to show how quantum nature of interaction affects physical observables I will use "Strong Interactions of Hadrons at High Energies" by Vladimir Gribov, Chapter 9 "Regge poles in perturbation theory".
For mathematically well-prepared students I recommend to read "The Quantum Theory of Fields" vol. 1, by Steven Weinberg.
One of the fathers of the Standard Model gives his comprehensive vision of QFT
Digital teaching:
For the online teaching I will use zoom
https://zoom.us/j/3815135633?pwd=bWIvcmlxM0VXaGxTWnUyUWo5R3J1dz09
The plan is to have a "regular" blackboard lecture by streaming the notes taken live on an iPad.
These notes will be uploaded to the website after each lecture.
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