Baal, Pierre van.
A course in field theory/
Pierre van Baal
- Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2014.
- x, 224 p. ; 25 cm.
1. Motivation
2. Quantisation of Fields
3. Euler-Lagrange Equations
4. Tree-Level Diagrams
5. Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory
6. Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics
7. Path Integrals in Field Theory
8. Perturbative Expansion in Field Theory
9. The Scattering Matrix
10. Cross Sections
11. Decay Rates
12. The Dirac Equation
13. Plane Wave Solutions of the Dirac Equation
14. The Dirac Hamiltonian
15. Path Integrals for Fermions
16. Feynman Rules for Vector Fields
17. Quantum Electrodynamics
18. Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
19. The Higgs Mechanism
20. Gauge Fixing and Ghosts
21. The Standard Model
22. Loop Corrections and Renormalisation
23. Problems.
9781466594593
Field theory (Physics)
Quantum field theory
530.143 / BAA/C