Course
Submitted by admin_sps on 9 March, 2016 - 16:47
Prerequisites:
P304 (Electromagnetism II), P302 (Quantum Mechanics II)
Syllabus:
(42 Lectures + 14 Tutorial)
- Relativistic quantum mechanics - Klein-Gordon equation, Dirac equation, free- particle solutions
- Lagrangian formulation of Klein-Gordon, Dirac and Maxwell equations, Symmetries (Noether’s theorem), Gauge field, actions
- Canonical quantization of scalar and Dirac fields
- Interacting fields - Heisenberg picture, perturbation theory, Wicks theorem, Feynman diagram
- Cross-section and S-matrix
- Quantization of gauge field, gauge fixing
- QED and QED processes
- Radiative corrections - self-energy, vacuum polarization, vertex correction
- LSZ and optical theorem
- Introduction to re-normalization
Reference Books:
- An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by M. Peskin and D. V. Schroeder
- Quantum Field theory: From Operators to Path Integrals, 2nd edition by Kerson Huang
- Quantum Field Theory by Mark Srednicki
- Quantum Field Theory by Claude Itzykson and Jean Bernard Zuber
- Notes from Sidney Coleman's Physics 253a, arXiv: 1110.5013
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