TY - BOOK AU - Baal, Pierre van. TI - A course in field theory SN - 9781466594593 U1 - 530.143 PY - 2014/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Quantum field theory N1 - 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 ER -