Advanced Concepts in Quantum Field Theory: With Exercises

ISBN-13: 9783030561673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 153 str.

James M. Cline

Spis treści

Introduction.- The Loop Expansion.- The Feynman Rules.- Evaluation of diagrams; regularization.- Renormalization.- Other regulators.- The Quantum Effective Action.- Fermions.- The Axial Anomaly.- Abelian Gauge Theories: QED.- Applications of QED.- Nonabelian gauge theories.- Nonperturbative aspects of SU(N) gauge theory.- Homeworks.  

O autorze

James Cline is a professor of theoretical physics at McGill University.  He earned his Ph.D. in particle physics at Caltech, held postdoctoral positions at Ohio State University, McGill, and University of Minnesota, and has been a frequent sabbatical visitor at CERN.  His research contributions, numbering over 200, have focused on elementary particle theory and its links to cosmology and astrophysics.  He has taught at advanced schools including Les Houches and TASI.