Digestible Quantum Field Theory

• Main Author: Smilga, Andrei (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Cosmology.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

This book gives an intermediate level treatment of quantum field theory, appropriate to a reader with a first degree in physics and a working knowledge of special relativity and quantum mechanics. It aims to give the reader some understanding of what QFT is all about, without delving deep into actua...

Table of Contents:

• I Aperitif: Introduction.- Units. Fundamental Constants. Conventions
• II Hors d'Oeuvres: The Universe as we Know It.- The Cubic Edifice of Physical Theories
• Genesis of the Standard Model
• III Chef's Secrets: Groups and Algebras
• Lagrangians and Hamiltonians
• Cross Sections and Amplitudes
•  IV Entrées:  Fermion Fields
• Feynman Graphs
• Quantum Chromodynamics
• Theory of the Electroweak Interactions
• V Trou Normand:  The Human Dimension
• VI Dessert:  Supersymmetry
• General Relativity
• Mysterious Quantum Gravity
• VII Coffee: Recommended Reading.