January – May 2024
This is an introductory graduate course on quantum field theory. It starts with the basic principles of the subject while also developing more advanced material. Topics include the need for fields, canonical quantization, particles, perturbation theory, Feynman diagrams, properties of the S-matrix, renormalization, functional methods and gauge theories.
The principal references are An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Michael Peskin and Daniel Schroeder, Volumes I and II of Steven Weinberg’s The Quantum Theory of Fields, and the notes from Sidney Coleman’s Physics 253a.
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