TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Trouble with higher spin
2. Free vector fields
3. Gauge invariance
4. Canonical quantization in axial gauge
5. The Faddeev-Popov method
6. Covariant gauges
7. Minimal coupling
8. Geometry of gauge fields
9. Feynman rules
10. Elementary processes
11. Radiative corrections
12. Gauge-invariant (dimensional) Regularization
13. Vacuum polarization
14. Running coupling constant
15. Infrared divergences

REFERENCES

1. Peskin, Chapters 5, 6, 7
2. Ramond, Chapter VIII.
3. Weinberg, Chapters 8, 11.
4. Itzykson and Zuber, Selected topics in Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8

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