Code
Φ-606
Level
Graduate
Category
B
Teacher
N. Tsamis
ECTS
5
Hours
4
Semester
Spring
Display
Yes
Offered
No
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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.
Program
Tuesday, 9:00-11:00, 2nd floor seminar room
Thursday, 9:00-11:00, 2nd floor seminar room
Thursday, 9:00-11:00, 2nd floor seminar room
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
