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Professor:
Ken Intriligator, Mayer Hall 5234. Office hours TBD.
Question and answer session with Ken, Monday Dec 7, usual time and room.
In class final exam, Tuesday Dec. 8. 11:30am -2:30pm, usual room. Bring one page of formulae (front and back).
Text: The lectures will largely follow these free, online notes:
Starting Winter Quarter, I will use the new book by Schwarz, which has gotten many enthusiastic recommendations. Stay posted.
Recommended book for advanced QFT topics Coleman's Aspects of Symmetry
Course Times
:MW 11:00-12:20pm, MHA 5301.
Homework: It is essential to do your exercises. Many of the assigned problems have solutions that can be found online -- try to resist that, it's cheating both yourself, and it is technically, officially cheating. Working together in groups is fine, and encouraged, as long as everyone is working.
Homework: Homework: 50%, final 50%.
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| lecture# | topic (and link to notes) | Homework |
| 9/28 | Introduction to field theory | HW 1 (Due Oct 5) |
| 9/30 | Fields and Noether's thm. | |
| 10/5 | Field quantization. | |
| 10/7 | Causality and propagator | HW 2 (Due Oct 14) |
| 10/12 | Feynman propagator cont. | |
| 10/14 | Dyson's formula | HW 3 (Due Oct 21) |
| 10/19 | Amplitude examples | |
| 10/21 | Amplitude examples, cont. | |
| 10/26 | Amplitudes and Feynman rules | |
| 10/28 | Feynman rules cont | HW 4 (due Nov 4) |
| 11/2 | Physics from amplitudes | |
| 11/4 | Physics from amplitudes, cont | |
| 11/9 | Some LSZ. Lorentz group. | HW5 (due Nov 12) |
| 11/11 | Lorentz group and Fermions. | |
| 11/16 | Dirac equation | HW 6, due Nov 25 |
| 11/23 | Fermion field quantization | |
| 11/25 | Fermion Feynman rules | |
| 11/30 | Finish spin 1/2, start spin 1 | HW 7 (due Dec 7) |
| 12/2 | Continue with spin 1 |