Syllabus
Renormalization theory. Renormalization group. Spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism. Quantization of non-abelian gauge theories. QCD: asymptotic freedom. Introduction to anomalies.
Bibliography
- M. E. Peskin & D. V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Westview Press (1995)
- S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vols. I–II, Cambridge (1995–1996)
- L. H. Ryder, Quantum Field Theory, Cambridge (1996)