Admission Requirements
Prerequisites: Effective Field Theory, Quantum Theory.
Description
Building on the courses Effective Field Theory and Quantum Theory, this is a first course in the Quantum Theory of Fields, which consistently unifies special relativity with quantum mechanics.
Topics:
Quantum Mechanics from a Lagrangian perspective
The path integral
Spin and the Lorentz Group
The Dirac Equation
The theory of Quantum-ElectroDynamics
Perturbation theory and elementary scattering processes
Introduction to Renormalization, the renormallization group and the connection with critical phenomena
Timetable
Mode of instruction
Lectures and tutorials
Assessment method
60% Problem assignments; 40% Written Final exam (must pass)
Blackboard
Course material is on Blackboard.
To have access to Blackboard you need a ULCN-account.Blackboard UL
Reading list
primary text books (required)
1. M. Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
2. R. Rattazzi: The Path Integral approach to Quantum Mechanics, http://itp.epfl.ch/webdav/site/itp/users/174685/private/RevisedLectureNotesV2.pdf
secondary text book (not required): M.E. Peskin, D.V. Schroeder: An introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Westview Press, 1995.
Contact
Contactdetails Teacher(s):Prof.dr.K. Schalm (Koenraad)