Quantum Field Theory Summer Seminar

Meets in RLM 14.318 on Tuesdays 1-3 PM and Thursdays 1-2 PM

Description:

This is a student organized meeting which focuses on the calculational techniques of relativistic quantum field theory. The emphasis is on the use of theory to make calculations of interest to the participants. The Tuesday sessions focus on the presentation of new material and are predominantly theory oriented, while the Thursday sessions concentrate on problem solving and any topics out of the line of development. Selected lecture notes appear below in PostScript format.

Schedule

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Notes:

  1. Nonrelativistic Quantum Fields (5/24/94).
  2. Interactions with Nonrelativistic Quantum Fields (5/26/94).
  3. Local Fields, Transformations, and Invariant Lagrangians (5/31/94). This contains a short appendix on the conventions used with respect to Pauli and Dirac matrices.
  4. Solutions of the (free) Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations (6/2/94).
  5. Noether's Theorem, Gauge Invariance, and CPT by Steve Cannon (6/7/94).
  6. Covariant Quantization of the Electromagnetic Field (6/7/94).
  7. Applications of Noether Currents: Scale Invariance (6/9/94).
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