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Instructors: Dr. Felix Yu
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:
Corona-virus Announcement (14.04.20):
Lectures and discussion sessions will be carried out over video conference. Homework will be distributed and returned electronically. At this time, oral final exams are expected to be conducted over video conference. Please contact the instructor (yu001@uni-mainz.de) if there are any questions or concerns.
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 massless vectors and the (g-2) calculation for the electron in quantum electrodynamics.
Topics:Renormalization
Path integral quantization
Variational method for deriving Feynman rules
Yang-Mills theory/non-abelian gauge theories
Phenomenology of perturbative quantum chromodynamics
BRST symmetry
Spontaneous symmetry breaking/Higgs mechanism
R_xi gauge fixing
Goldstone boson equivalence theorem
Standard model of particle physics
Electroweak Lagrangian and phenomenology of quarks and leptons
The hierarchy problem
Time permitting:
Critical exponents and scalar field theory
Chiral anomalies
Textbooks:
Primary reference:
Michael Peskin, Daniel Schroeder
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Westview Press, 1995, ISBN 0-201-50397-2
Secondary references:
Matthew D Schwartz
Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN: 1107034736
Recommended reading list:
Primary reference:
Michael Peskin, Daniel Schroeder
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Westview Press, 1995, ISBN 0-201-50397-2
Secondary references:
Matthew D Schwartz
Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN: 1107034736
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