TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Example: real scalar field
2. Degeneracy of the vacuum
3. The Goldstone phenomenon
4. Goldstone's theorem
5. Current algebra
6. The charged weak current
7. Interactions of Goldstone bosons
8. The Higgs mechanism
9. The Standard Model

REFERENCES

1. Peskin, Chapters 11, 20, 21.
2. Ramond
3. Weinberg, Chapter 19.
4. Itzykson and Zuber, Sections 11-1,2,3.

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