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Instructors: Dr. Felix Yu
Event type:
hybrid: 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 massless vectors and the (g-2) calculation for the electron in quantum electrodynamics.
Contents:
Topics:
Renormalization
Path integral quantization
Variational method for deriving Feynman rules
Yang-Mills theory/non-abelian gauge theories
Phenomenology of perturbative quantum chromodynamics
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
Time permitting:
BRST symmetry
Critical exponents and scalar field theory
The hierarchy problem
Chiral anomalies
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
Digital teaching:
All lecture notes, homework assignments, and solutions will be posted on the Moodle portal hosted by JGU Mainz, available at lms.uni-mainz.de . You should be able to sign in with your ZDV Uni-Mainz account.
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