Master Course: Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Field Theory

dr hab. David Blaschke, prof. UWr (Lectures)

prof. dr hab. Ziemowit Popowicz (Exercises)

Part I: Summer Semester 2009
Fridays, 16-18, Room 422 (Lectures)
Mondays, 14-16, Room 422 (Exercises)

Part II: Winter Semester 2009/2010

Part I:

1. Invitation: Pair Production in e+e- Annihilation
2. The Klein-Gordon Field - Exercises [pdf], 09.03.09; Exercises [pdf], 16.03.09
3. The Dirac Field
4. Interacting Fields and Feynman Diagrams -
5. Elementary Processes: e+e- and pion-pion scattering -
6. Functional Methods: Path Integral Quantization -
7. Systematics of Renormalization
8. The Renormalization Group
9. Quantum Chromodynamics

Part II:

1. Non-Abelian Gauge Invariance
2. Quantization of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
3. Renormalization and Gauge Invariance
4. Gauge Theories and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking -
5. Field Theory and Collective Phenomena
6. Field Theory and Condensed Matter
7. Grand Unification? Open Questions

Literature:
M.E. Peskin, D.V. Schroeder: Quantum Field Theory, (Errata)
A. Zee: Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
B. DeWit, J. Smith: Field Theory in Particle Physics
D. Kazakov: Radiative corrections, divergences, ... (Lecture Notes)
D. Blaschke: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory and Matter under Extreme Conditions, (Script)


Last update: 4. March 2009