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Quantum field theory : lectures of Sidney Coleman /

"Sidney Coleman was a physicist's physicist. He is largely unknown outside of the theoretical physics community, and known only by reputation to the younger generation. He was an unusually effective teacher, famed for his wit, his insight and his encyclopedic knowledge of the field to whic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coleman, Sidney, 1937-2007 (Author)
Other Authors: Kaiser, David (writer of foreword.), Chen, Bryan Gin-ge, 1985- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2019]
Subjects:
Quantum field theory.
Théorie quantique des champs.
Table of Contents:
  • Adding Special Relativity to Quantum Mechanics
  • The Simplest Many-Particle Theory
  • Constructing a Scalar Quantum Field
  • The Method of the Missing Box
  • Symmetries and Conservation Laws I. Spacetime Symmetries
  • Symmetries and Conservation Laws II. Internal Symmetries
  • Introduction to Perturbation Theory and Scattering
  • Perturbation Theory I. Wick Diagrams
  • Perturbation Theory II. Divergences and Counterterms
  • Mass Renormalization and Feynman Diagrams
  • Scattering I. Mandelstam Variables, CPT and Phase Space
  • Scattering II. Applications
  • Green's Functions and Heisenberg Fields
  • The LSZ Formalism
  • Renormalization I. Determination of Counterterms
  • Renormalization II. Generalization and Extension
  • Unstable Particles
  • Representations of the Lorentz Group
  • The Dirac Equation I. Constructing a Lagrangian
  • The Dirac Equation II. Solutions
  • The Dirac Equation III. Quantization and Feynman Rules
  • CPT and Fermi Fields
  • Renormalization of Spin-1/2 Theories
  • Isospin
  • Coping with Infinities : Regularization and Renormalization
  • Vector Fields
  • Electromagnetic Interactions and Minimal Coupling
  • Functional Integration and Feynman Rules
  • Extending the Methods of Functional Integrals
  • Electrodynamics with a Massive Photon
  • The Faddeev-Popov Prescription
  • Generating Functionals and Green's Functions
  • The Renormalization of QED
  • Two Famous Results in QED
  • Confronting Experiment with QED
  • Introducing SU(3)
  • Irreducible Multiplets in SU(3)
  • SU(3): Proofs and Applications
  • Broken SU(3) and the Naive Quark Model
  • Weak Interactions and Their Currents
  • Current Algebra and PCAC
  • Current Algebra and Pion Scattering
  • A First Look at Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
  • Perturbative Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
  • Topics in Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
  • The Higgs Mechanism and Non-Abelian Gauge Fields
  • The Glashow Salam Weinberg Model I. A Theory of Leptons
  • The Glashow Salam Weinberg Model II. Adding Quarks
  • The Renormalization Group.