QUANTUM FIELD THEORY II
Physics 612 - Spring 2007

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Unit 4: The Standard Model

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. Quantum Chromodynamics
  2. The Goldstone Theorem
  3. Current algebra
  4. Electroweak interactions
  5. Chiral anomalies

REFERENCES

  • Peskin, Chapters 11, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21.
  • Ramond, Chapters VI, VII, VIII.
  • Weinberg, Chapters 15, 19, 21.
  • Itzykson and Zuber, Chapters 11, 12.

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