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An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory

Michael E. Peskin Daniel V. Schroeder

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English
CRC Press
11 September 2019
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory is a textbook intended for the graduate physics course covering relativistic quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, and Feynman diagrams. The authors make these subjects accessible through carefully worked examples illustrating the technical aspects of the subject, and intuitive explanations of what is going on behind the mathematics.

After presenting the basics of quantum electrodynamics, the authors discuss the theory of renormalization and its relation to statistical mechanics, and introduce the renormalization group. This discussion sets the stage for a discussion of the physical principles that underlie the fundamental interactions of elementary particle physics and their description by gauge field theories.

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Imprint:   CRC Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   1.280kg
ISBN:   9780367320560
ISBN 10:   0367320568
Pages:   868
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Part I: Feyman Diagrams and Quantum Elctrodynamics Invitation: Pair Production in e * r e ~ Annihilation The Klein Gordon Field The Dirac Field Interacting Fields and Feynman Diagrams Elementary Processes of Quantum Electrodynamics Radiative Corrections: Introduction Radiative Corrections: Some Formal Developments Part II: Renormalization Invitation: Ultraviolet Cutoffs and Critical Flucutations Functional Methods Systematics of Renormalization Renormalization and Symmetry The Renormalization Group Critical Exponents and Scalar Field Theory Part III: Non-Abelian Gauge Theories Invitation: The Parton Model of Hadron Structure Non-Abelian Gauge Invariance Quantization of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories Quantum Chromodynamics Operator Products and Effective Vertices Pertubation Theory Anomalies Gauge Theories with Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Quantization of Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories Quantum Field Theory at the Frontier

Micheal E. Peskin received his doctorate in physics from Cornell University and has held research appointments in theoretical physics at Harvard, Cornell, and CEN Saclay. In 1982, he joined the stafff of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where he is now Professor of Physics. Daniel V. Schroeder received his doctorate in physics from Stanford University in 1990. He held visiting appointments at Pomona College and Grinnell College before joining the faculty of Weber State University, where he is now Associate Professor of Physics.

Reviews for An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory

"""This is such a serious competitor to Bjorken and Drell that I fear for our royalties."" —Prof. J.D. Bjorken, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ""I have used the text of Peskin and Schroeder in teaching several graduate courses. It provides students with nearly all the tools required of the modern field theorist. It is the only field theory text with a thoroughly modern, Wilsonian treatment of renormalization and the renormalization group. Students are left well equipped to tackle research problems in QCD and the electroweak theory."" —Prof. Michael Dine, University of California, Santa Cruz ""Peskin and Schroeder have written an introductory field theory textbook with the right choice of material at the right level and all presented from a completely modern point of view. It provides a pedagogical introduction to the tools and concepts of field theory that will be of use to students of condensed matter, cosmology, and particle physics alike."" —Prof. Jeffrey Harvey, University of Chicago"


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