Important
Lecturer
Begin of lecture
19. April 2021
Time and Date
- Recorded Lectures will be uploaded at the beginning of the week.
- Friday 9:45 - 11:15, online live lecture discussing topics of the previous week
General Information
- The lecture and the tutorials will be given in English.
- The problem sets will be handed in by the students, graded/corrected by the tutor and discussed in the tutorials the following week.
- Admission to the final exam requires 66% of the points on the problem sets.
- Please register for the exercise groups online. To do so, you need the Lecture Key given in the first lecture.
- If you assign a password at the registration, you can request your current scores here.
Examination
There will be an oral examination at the end of the course. Details will be given in the lecture.
Literature
- Weinberg: The Quantum Theory of Fields (Volume 1)
Standard reference, very rigorous & mathematical, ratio #formulas/#text = high - Itzykson/Zuber: Quantum Field Theory
Standard reference, ratio #formulas/#text = high - Peskin/Schroeder: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Standard reference for courses on QFT, ratio #formulas/#text = medium - Zee: Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
Compact and pedagogical introduction to the field, #formulas/#text = low
Topics
The goal is to gain a thorough understanding of relativistic quantum field theory, the concepts of Feynman diagrams, renormalisation for quantum electrodynamics, and to extend this knowledge to non-abelian gauge theories. In particular:
- Relativistic quantum mechanics and Dirac equation
- Path integral formalism
- Quantisation - Free fields
- Interacting fields and Feynman diagrams
- Elementary processes and first corrections
- Renormalisation
- Non-abelian gauge fields
Script
These notes follow mostly the exposition of Peskin & Schroeder. They are not an extension of the material covered in the lectures but the script that I use to prepare them. Please have a look at Peskin & Schroeder and the given references for more comprehensive coverage; the corresponding pages are noted in the headers (→ P&S • pp. xx-yy).
Problem Sets
No. | Problem Set | Date | Comments |
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1 | Problem Set 01 | 16.04.2021 | To be handed in until April 25, 2021. |
2 | Problem Set 02 | 25.04.2021 | To be handed in until May 2, 2021. |
3 | Problem Set 03 | 03.05.2021 | To be handed in until May 9, 2021. |
4 | Problem Set 04 | 10.05.2021 | To be handed in until May 16, 2021. |
5 | Problem Set 05 | 24.05.2021 | To be handed in until May 30, 2021. |
6 | Problem Set 06 | 31.05.2021 | To be handed in until June 6, 2021. |
7 | Problem Set 07 | 07.06.2021 | To be handed in until June 13, 2021. |
8 | Problem Set 08 | 14.06.2021 | To be handed in until June 20, 2021. |
9 | Problem Set 09 | 21.06.2021 | To be handed in until June 27, 2021. |
10 | Problem Set 10 | 28.06.2021 | To be handed in until July 6, 2021. |
11 | Problem Set 11 | 05.07.2021 | To be handed in until July 11, 2021 |
12 | Problem Set 12 | 12.07.2021 | To be handed in until July 18, 2021. |
Tutorials
Tutor | Room | Day | Time | |
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Jan Kumlin / Nastasia Makki | Online | Friday | 11:30 - 13:00 |