Contents:
Week 8: Symmetries 5. Week 9: Dirac equation 8.
Week Dirac quantisation 8. Pensum The pensum is defined by the content of the lectures.
We will follow roughly my lecture notes, see the link below. As alternatives, I suggest you to go to the library and to test several QFT books.
Some recommend ones are D. Bailin and A. For a freely available draft see here M.
Lancaster and S. Peskin and D. For a freely available draft see here [the right book, if you want to get the factors i and 2 right Zee, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press [provides clear physical picture, but especially in later parts pretty sketchy.
The pensum is defined by the content of the lectures and the notes. Lectures notes You can download a script from here.
If you find errors, let me know. Lecture 1 Introductory remarks on quantum field theory and classical field theory, roughly covering pages of the printed notes. Lecture 2 Noether's theorem and the energy momentum tensor: pages of the printed notes. Lecture 3 A few last comments on classical field theory. Lecture 4 More on canonical quantization, including normal ordering, the vacuum and the interpretation of particles. Lecture 5 Yet more canonical quantization, including the Heisenberg picture and causality. Lecture 6 Propagators.
The beginnings of interactions. Pages and Lecture 7 Interactions.
Dysons formula and a first look at scattering. Lecture 8 Wick's theorem, Feynman diagrams and examples of scattering amplitudes. Lecture 9 Finishing off scattering amplitudes. Chapter 4, The large-N limit pages : Gross- Neveu model, quasi-long-range order, planar diagrams in QCD, mesons and glueballs , eta -prime mass, baryons.
Chapter 0, Introduction and Table of Contents. Chapter 1, The free scalar field. Chapter 2, Interacting scalar fields.
Chapter 4, Functional integration. Chapter 5, Quantum electrodynamics.
Chapter 6, Spontaneous symmetry breakdown. Chapter 7, Nonabelian gauge fields and the standard model. For more detailed summaries of the lectures and problem sets, see the course home page here.