Concepts in Quantum Field Theory: A Practitioner's Toolkit

By Victor Ilisie

Book Overview

1 Vectors, tensors, manifolds and Special Relativity.- 2 Lagrangians, Hamiltonians and Noether's Theorem.- 3 Relativistic kinematics and phase space.- 4 Angular Distributions.- 5 Dirac algebra.- 6 Dimensional regularization. Ultraviolet and infrared divergences.- 7 QED renormalization.- 8 One-loop two and three-point functions.- 9 Massive spin one and renormalizable gauges.- 10 Symmetries and effective vertices.- 11 Effective field theory.- 12 Optical theorem.- A Master integral.- B Renormalization group equations.- C Feynman rules for derivative couplings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319387235
• ISBN13: 9783319387239
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"