An introduction to quantum field theory

Author(s)

• Peskin, Michael Edward
• Schroeder, Daniel V.

Bibliographic Information

An introduction to quantum field theory

Michael E. Peskin, Daniel V. Schroeder

Addison-Wesley, c1995

Other Title

Advanced book program

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 811-815) and index

"Advanced book program"--T.p. of 3rd printing

Description and Table of Contents

Description

An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory is a textbook intended for the graduate physics course covering relativistic quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and Feynman diagrams. The authors make these subjects accessible through carefully worked examples illustrating the technical aspects of the subject, and intuitive explanations of what is going on behind the mathematics. After presenting the basics of quantum electrodynamics, the authors discuss the theory of renormalization and its relation to statistical mechanics, and introduce the renormalization group. This discussion sets the stage for a discussion of the physical principles that underlie the fundamental interactions of elementary particle physics and their description by gauge field theories.

Table of Contents

Part I: Feyman Diagrams and Quantum Elctrodynamics Invitation: Pair Production in e * r e ~ Annihilation The Klein Gordon Field The Dirac Field Interacting Fields and Feynman Diagrams Elementary Processes of Quantum Electrodynamics Radiative Corrections: Introduction Radiative Corrections: Some Formal Developments Part II: Renormalization Invitation: Ultraviolet Cutoffs and Critical Flucutations Functional Methods Systematics of Renormalization Renormalization and Symmetry The Renormalization Group Critical Exponents and Scalar Field Theory Part III: Non-Abelian Gauge Theories Invitation: The Parton Model of Hadron Structure Non-Abelian Gauge Invariance Quantization of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories Quantum Chromodynamics Operator Products and Effective Vertices Pertubation Theory Anomalies Gauge Theories with Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Quantization of Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories Quantum Field Theory at the Frontier

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Details

• NCID: BA26289341
• ISBN:
  • 0201503972
• LCCN: 89027170
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Reading, Mass. ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 842 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC174.45
  • DC20 : 530.1/43
  • NDC8 : 421.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Quantum field theory
  • LCSH : Feynman diagrams
  • LCSH : Renormalization (Physics)
  • LCSH : Gauge fields (Physics)