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Instructors: Dr. Felix Yu
Event type:
Lecture/practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
08.128.165
Hours per week:
6
Credits:
9,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | -
Requirements / organisational issues:
Electrodynamics (Theo 2), Quantun mechanics (Theo 3 & 5)
Contents:
This course provides an introduction to quantum field theory, appropriate for advanced BSc students or beginning MSc students in physics. Students are expected to have completed courses in classical mechanics, classical electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, thermal physics and statistical physics, and mathematics including real and complex analysis.
Topics to be discussed:
Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations
Scalar fields
Fermion spinors, Dirac algebra, fermion fields
Green's functions
Vector fields, Abelian gauge theory
Canonical quantization
Correlation functions, time-ordered products
Quantum electrodynamics
Loop calculations
Dimensional regularization
Pauli-Villars regularization
Ward-Takahashi identities
Ultraviolet and infrared divergences in QED
Renormalization of QED
Charge renormalization in QED
Wavefunction renormalization in QED
Recommended reading list:
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
Mark Srednicki
Quantum Field Theory
Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0521864497
https://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/qft.html
Digital teaching:
All homework assignments and solutions will be posted on the Moodle portal hosted by JGU Mainz, lms.uni-mainz.de . You should be able to sign in with your ZDV Uni-Mainz account. Lecture notes are also available.
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