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The QT Group
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Unit 2: The Dirac field (spinors)
TEXTBOOKS:
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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.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Symmetry groups again
- Weyl spinors
- The Dirac equation
- Canonical quantization
- Causality and propagation
- 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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