Quantum Field Theory I
Quantum Field Theory I
Quantum Field Theory I
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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.