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Preface<br />

These are lecture notes to QFT I, supplementing the course held in the winter<br />

term 2005. The course is just an introductory one, the whole scheme being<br />

QFT I<br />

basic concepts and formalism<br />

scalar fields, toy-models<br />

QFT II<br />

electrons and photons<br />

quantum electrodynamics<br />

Renormalization<br />

pitfalls of the perturbation theory<br />

treatment of infinities<br />

Introduction to the Standard Model<br />

quarks, leptons, intermediate bosons<br />

quantum chromodynamics, electroweak theory<br />

Initially, the aimofthistext wasnottocompete with the textbooksavailable<br />

on the market, but rather to provide a set of hopefully useful comments and<br />

remarks to some of the existing courses. We chose An Introduction to <strong>Quantum</strong><br />

<strong>Field</strong> <strong>Theory</strong> by Peskin and Schroeder, since this seemed, and still seems, to be<br />

the standard modern textbook on the subject. Taking this book as a core, the<br />

original plan was<br />

• to reorganize the material in a bit different way<br />

• to offer sometimes a slightly different point of view<br />

• to add some material 1<br />

Eventually, the text became more and more self-contained, and the resemblance<br />

to the Peskin-Schroeder became weaker and weaker. At the present<br />

point, the text has very little to do with the Peskin-Schroeder, except perhaps<br />

the largely common notation.<br />

1 Almost everything we have added can be found in some well-known texts, the most<br />

important sources were perhaps The <strong>Quantum</strong> <strong>Theory</strong> of <strong>Field</strong>s by Weinberg, Diagrammar by<br />

t’Hooft and Veltman and some texts on nonrelativistic quantum mechanics of many-particle<br />

systems.

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