Tuesday, 13:30 - 15:10
Friday, 11:40 - 13:20
All lectures over zoom:
Meeting ID: 838 5551 8730
Passcode: 044834
link to the zoom meeting
To be determined
Quantum Field Theory by Peskin and Schroder
And/Or Srednicki (which you can download free from that page!)
NOTE that these two books use different conventions!
Therefore I am giving you a few helpful extra readings, which I will put here:
a PDF document reviewing group theory and representation theory
a PDF document reviewing the Lorentz group and its representations (Dirac algebra)
a PDF document summarizing how to jump back and forth between metric (and other) conventions
All homeworks will appear here as they are needed. Solutions have now been taken down.
It's harder but it's all extra credit.
Date | Topic | Reading | Notes | Recording |
13 April | What is QFT? | Peskin Ch. 1 Srednicki Preface |
notes, transparencies | lecture 1 |
16 April | Classical scalar fields | Peskin 2.1 Srednicki 1, 2, 3 |
notes 2, transparencies | lecture 2 |
20 April | Classical Nöther Theorem | Peskin 2.2 Srednicki 22 (just skim it) |
notes 3 transparencies | lecture 3 |
23 April | Spacetime symmetries | Peskin 2.2 Srednicki 2 |
notes 3, First half of this review transparencies |
lecture 4 |
27 April | Free scalar field | Peskin 2.3 Srednicki 3, 4 |
notes 4 transparencies | lecture 5 |
30 April | Particles, wave packets | Peskin 2.4 Srednicki 5 |
notes 5 transparencies | lecture 6 |
4 May | Lehmann representation, particles | Peskin 2.4, half of 7.1 Srednicki 5, 13 |
notes 6 transparencies | lecture 7 |
7 May | Setting up scattering | Peskin 7.2,
Pages
from Lowell Brown's book Srednicki 10, 11 |
notes 7 transparencies | lecture 8 |
11 May | The S-matrix, LSZ reduction | Peskin 4.5 and 7.2 Srednicki 10, 11 |
notes 8 transparencies | lecture 9 |
14 May | Path integrals 1 | Peskin 9.1 Srednicki 6, 7, 8 |
notes 9 transparencies | lecture 10 |
18 May | Path integrals, Pert. Thy | Peskin 9.2, 9.3 Srednicki 9 |
notes 10 and notes 11 transparencies | lecture 11 |
21 May | Tree-level Scattering | Peskin 4.1 to 4.6 Srednicki 10 |
notes 12 transparencies | lecture 12 |
25 May | Disconnected and loop diagrams | Peskin 4.1 to 4.6 | notes 13 transparencies | lecture 13 |
28 May | Lorentz group generators | Peskin 3.1 Srednicki 33 |
notes 14 transparencies | lecture 14 |
1 June | Lorentz group representations | Peskin 3.1, 3.2 Srednicki 34 |
notes 15 transparencies | lecture 15 |
4 June | Dirac equation, Gamma matrices | Peskin 3.1 to 3.4 Srednicki 34, 35 |
notes 16 transparencies | recording is two files |
8 June | Dirac equation, Gamma matrices | Peskin 3.1 to 3.4 Srednicki 34, 35 |
notes 16 transparencies | lecture 17 |
11 June | Wave and hydrogenic solutions | Peskin 3.1 to 3.4 | notes 17 transparencies | lecture 18 |
15 June | Quantizing Dirac | Peskin 3.5 Srednicki 36-39 |
notes 18 transparencies | lecture 19 |
18 June | Fermionic Path Integral | Peskin 9.5 Srednicki 41, 42, 43 |
notes 19 transparencies | lecture 20 |
22 June | External state fermions; Signs and Fermions | Peskin 4.7, 9.5 Srednicki 45, 46, 47 |
notes 20 transparencies | lecture 21 |
25 June | Continuous symmetries again | Peskin 9.6 |
notes 21 transparencies | lecture 22 |
29 June | Gauge invariance, photon propagator | Peskin 4.8, 9.4 Srednicki 54-58 |
notes 22 transparencies | lecture 23 |
2 July | Calculating: trace methods | Peskin 5.1 to 5.3 Srednicki 46-48 |
notes 23 transparencies | lecture 24 |
6 July | Calculating: interference, crossing | Peskin 5.4, 5.5 Srednicki 48 |
notes 24 transparencies | lecture 25 |
9 July | Higher-order: IR, collinear | Peskin 6.1, 6.2 (Missing in Srednicki) |
notes 25 transparencies | lecture 26 |
13 July | Higher-order: Renormalization | Peskin 7.1 Srednicki 16-18, 62 |
notes 25 transparencies | lecture 27 |
16 July | Vertex, Self-energy, Ward-Takehashi | Peskin 6.2 to 6.4, 7.4, 9.6 Srednicki 62, 63, 67,68 |
notes 26 notes 27 transparencies | lecture 28 |
If requested!! | Electron g-2 | Peskin 6.3 Srednicki 64 |
notes 28 |