QUANTUM FIELD THEORY II
Physics 612 - Spring 2009

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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. Unitarity
  6. Dispersion relations
  7. Green functions
  8. Path integrals
  9. The effective action
  10. Ward identities

REFERENCE

  • Peskin, Chapters 4, 7, 9.

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