Master Course: Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Field Theory

dr hab. David Blaschke, prof. UWr

Part I: Summer Semester 2007
Thursdays, 8-10, Room 119 (Exercises)
Fridays, 10-12, Room 422 (Lectures)

Part II: Winter Semester 2007/2008
Thursdays, 10-12, Room 408 (Lectures)
Thursdays, 14-16, Room 408 (Exercises)

Part I:

1. Invitation: Pair Production in e+e- Annihilation
2. The Klein-Gordon Field
3. The Dirac Field - Exercises [pdf], 29.03.07; Exercises [pdf], 12.04.07
4. Interacting Fields and Feynman Diagrams - Exercises [pdf], 26.04.07
5. Elementary Processes: e+e- and pion-pion scattering - Exercises [pdf], 10.05.07; Exercises [pdf], 24.05.07
6. Functional Methods: Path Integral Quantization - Exercises [pdf], 31.05.07; Exercises [pdf], 04.06.07
7. Systematics of Renormalization - Exercises [pdf], 16.10.07
8. The Renormalization Group - Exercises [pdf], 13.11.07; Exercises [pdf], 20.11.07; Exercises [pdf], 27.11.07
9. Quantum Chromodynamics - Exercises [pdf], 04.12.07

Part II:

1. Non-Abelian Gauge Invariance - Seminar [pdf], 11.12.07
2. Quantization of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
3. Renormalization and Gauge Invariance
4. Gauge Theories and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking - Exercises [pdf], 18.12.07
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
A. Zee: Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
B. DeWit, J. Smith: Field Theory in Particle Physics


Last update: 18. March 2007