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QFT Lectures Notes by Jared Kaplan
The contents of this lecture notes are : Useful References and Texts, Philosophy, Review of Lagrangians and Harmonic Oscillators, Balls and Springs, Free Scalar Quantum Field Theory with Special Relativity, Interactions in Classical Field Theory with a View Towards QFT, Overview of Scattering and Perturbation Theory, Old Fashioned Perturbation Theory, Feynman Rules as a Generalization of Classical Physics, The Hamiltonian Formalism for Perturbation Theory, Feynman Rules from the Hamiltonian Formalism, Particles with Spin, Covariant Derivatives and Scalar QED, Scattering and Ward Identities in Scalar QED, Spinors and QED, Quantization and Feynman Rules for QED, Casimir Effect, The Exact pt Correlator Kallen-Lehmann Representation, Large Logarithms and Renormalization Flows, QM Example of Wilsonian Renormalization, Wilsonian Renormalization Flows, Path Integrals, Path Integrals and Statistical Physics, Discrete Symmetries and Spinors, More on Spin and Statistics, QED Vacuum Polarization and Anomalous Magnetic Moment, Renormalization and QED, IR Divergences and Long Wavelength Physics, Implications of Unitarity, Interlude on Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, Overview of Lie Algebra Classi cation and Representations, Spontaneously Broken Global Symmetries and Goldstone Bosons, Renormalization in YM and Asymptotic Freedom, Higgs Mechanism, Parton Model and Deep Inelastic Scattering, Anomalies as Almost Local E ects, A Lecture on Cosmological Perturbation Theory.
Author(s): Jared Kaplan, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
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A Course in Field Theory by Pierre van Baal
This page online covers the following topics related to Field Theory : Quantisation of Fields, Euler–Lagrange Equations, Tree-Level Diagrams, Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory, Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Path Integrals in Field Theory, Perturbative Expansion in Field Theory, he Scattering Matrix, Cross Sections, Decay Rates, The Dirac Equation, Plane Wave Solutions of the Dirac Equation, The Dirac Hamiltonian, Path Integrals for Fermions, Feynman Rules for Vector Fields, Quantum Electrodynamics—QED, Non-Abelian Gauge Theories, The Higgs Mechanism, Gauge Fixing and Ghosts, The Standard Model, Loop Corrections and Renormalisation.
Author(s): Pierre van Baal
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This lecture note contains the following contents : Prerequisites, Contents, References, Classical Mechanics, Hamiltonian Formulation, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Conventions, Spring Lattice, Continuum Limit, Relativistic Covariance, Hamiltonian Field Theory, Quantisation, Fock Space, Complex Scalar Field, Correlators, Sources, Internal Symmetries, Spacetime Symmetries, Discrete Symmetries, Dirac Equation and Clifford Algebra, Discrete Symmetries, Spin Statistics, Grassmann Numbers, Quantisation, Complex and Real Fields, Massless Field and Chiral Symmetry, Classical Electrodynamics, Gauge Fixing, Particle States, Casimir Energy, Massive Vector Field, Interacting Lagrangians, Interacting Field Operators, Perturbation Theory, Some Examples, Feynman Rules, Feynman Rules for QED, Scattering Basics, Cross Sections and Matrix Elements, Electron Scattering, Pair Production, Loop Contributions, Asymptotic States, Unitarity, Self Energy, Loop Integral, Regularisation and Renormalisation, Counterterms, Vertex Renormalisation.
Author(s): ETH Zurich
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