PHYS 7651 - Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I

Fall. 3 credits.

Undergraduates must enroll for letter grade.

C. Csaki.

Topics include consequences of causality and Lorentz invariance in quantum theory, quantization of Klein-Gordon and Dirac fields, perturbation theory, Feynman diagrams, calculation of cross sections and decay rates, and an introduction to radiative corrections and renormalization in Quantum Electrodynamics. At the level of An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Peskin and Schroeder.