QUANTUM FIELD THEORY I
Physics 611 - Fall 2018

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The QT Group

Unit 2: The Dirac field (spinors)

TEXTBOOKS: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, by Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder, Addison Wesley
Field Theory - A Modern Primer, by Pierre Ramond, Frontiers in Physics, Benjamin/Cummings.
The Quantum Theory of Fields, by Steven Weinberg, Vols. I and II, Cambridge University Press.
Quantum Field Theory, by Claude Itzykson and Jean-Bernard Zuber, McGraw Hill.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Symmetry groups again
  2. Weyl spinors
  3. The Dirac equation
  4. Canonical quantization
  5. Causality and propagation
  6. Discrete symmetries

REFERENCES

  • Peskin, Chapter 3.
  • Ramond, Chapter I.
  • Weinberg, Sections 5.4-5.
  • Itzykson and Zuber, Sections 2-1,4,5, 3-3.

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