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Code Φ-606
Title Quantum Field Theory ΙΙ
Category B
ECTS 5
Hours 4
Level Graduate
Semester Spring
Teacher N. Tsamis
Program Tuesday, 9:00-11:00, 2nd floor seminar room
Thursday, 9:00-11:00, 2nd floor seminar room
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Goal of the Course The course is intended for graduate students. The basic aim of the course is to continue with more advanced techniques and applications of quantum field theory.
Syllabus Functional methods in QFT. Renormalization. Renormalization Group. Non-Abeliangauge theories and their quantization. Asymptotic freedom. Introduction to QCD.Operator product expansion, electron-positron annihilation and deep-inelastic scattering.Anomalies.
Bibliography M. Peskin and D. Schroeder, “An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory”, Westview PressS. Weinberg, “The Quantum Theory of Fields”, Cambridge University Press