QUANTUM FIELD THEORY II
Physics 612 - Spring 2007

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Unit 1: Interactions

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. The interaction picture
  2. Scattering theory and the S-matrix
  3. Wick's theorem
  4. Feynman diagrams
  5. Counterterms
  6. Reaction rates
  7. Crossing symmetry and relations
  8. Unitarity
  9. Dispersion relations
  10. Statistical mechanics
  11. Renormalization
  12. Higher-order radiative corrections
  13. Green functions
  14. Vacuum expectation values

REFERENCES

  • Peskin, Chapter 4.
  • Ramond, Chapter IV.
  • Weinberg, Chapter 6.
  • Itzykson and Zuber, selected topics in Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8.

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