402-0844-00L Quantum Field Theory II
Semester | Frühjahrssemester 2015 |
Dozierende | G. Isidori |
Periodizität | jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung |
Lehrsprache | Englisch |
Kurzbeschreibung | The subject of the course is modern applications of quantum field theory with emphasis on the quantization of non-abelian gauge theories. |
Lernziel | |
Inhalt | The following topics will be covered: - path integral quantization - non-abelian gauge theories and their quantization - systematics of renormalization, including BRST symmetries, Slavnov-Taylor Identities and the Callan Symanzik equation - gauge theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking and their quantization - renormalization of spontaneously broken gauge theories and quantum effective actions |
Literatur | M.E. Peskin and D.V. Schroeder, An introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Perseus (1995). L.H. Ryder, Quantum Field Theory, CUP (1996). S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields (Volume 2), CUP (1996). M. Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory, CUP (2006). |