Lecture "Quantum Field Theory"
of Priv.-Doz. Dr. Axel Pelster
in Summer Term 2014:
General Information:
Lectures Wednesdays in Seminar Room 46-576 from 13.45 until 15.15
Lecture at 28.05. does not take place and is shifted to 05.06.
Exercises Thursdays in Seminar Room 46-576 from 15.30 until 17.00 at the following days:
22.5., 12.06., 19.06., 26.06.
Topics:
Canonical field quantization, Poincare group, Klein-Gordon field,
Noether theorem, Maxwell field, Dirac field,
quantum electrodynamics, perturbation theory, Wick rule, Feyman diagrams, scattering processes
Excercise Sheets:
Problem Set 1 for the Exercises at 22.05.14
Problem Set 2 for the Exercises at 22.05.14
Problem Set 3 for the Exercises at 12.06.14
Problem Set 4 for the Exercises at 12.06.14
Problem Set 5 for the Exercises at 26.06.14
Problem Set 6
Problem Set 7
Literature:
F. Dyson, Quantenfeldtheorie, Springer, 2014
W. Greiner, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics - Wave Equations, Springer, 2000
W. Greiner and J. Reinhardt, Quantum Electrodynamics, Springer, 2008
W. Greiner and J. Reinhardt, Field Quantization, Springer, 2008
M.E. Peskin and D.V. Schröder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1995
S. Schweber, QED and the men who made it - Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga, Princeton University Press, 1994
M. Veltman, Diagrammatica - The Path to Feynman Diagrams, Cambridge University Press, 1994
T. Lancaster and S.J. Blundell, Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur, Oxford University Press, 2014