Quantum Field Theory II - SS 2016

Lecturer: A. Hebecker , Time and Location: Tue 9-11 am, Thu 9-11 am, Philosophenweg 12, großer HS, first lecture: 19. April

Tutorials: Mon/Thu/Fri, in Phil.weg 12

Head tutor: Lukas Witkowski


Lecture Notes


Literature:

see literature for QFT I as well as:

R.J. Rivers: Path Integral Methods in Quantum Field Theory, Cambridge University (CUP), 1990

P. Ramond: Field Theory: A Modern Primer, Front. Phys., 1981

J. Zinn-Justin: Quantum Field Theory and Critical Phenomena, Oxford Science Publications, 1996

J. Collins: Renormalization, CUP, 1995

H. Georgi: Lie Algebras in Particle Physics, Perseus Books, 1999

P. Ramond: Group Theory

M. Shifman: Advanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory

L. S. Schulman: Techniques and Applications of Path Integration, Dover, 2005

Fadeev / Slavnov: Gauge Fields - An Introduction to Quantum Theory, Westview Press, 1993

G. Münster: Quantentheorie, Walter de Gruyter, 2006 (especially for harm. oscill. in path integral approach)

Henneaux / Teitelboim: Quantization of Gauge Systems, Princeton University Press, 1992

Kugo / Ojima: Prog. Theor. Phys. 60 : 1869 (1978)

Kugo / Uehara: Nucl. Phys. B197 : 378 (1982)

Ellis / Stirling / Webber: QCD and Collider Physics, CUP, 1996

R.D. Field: Applications of Perturbative QCD, Addison-Wesley, 1989

R.A. Bertlmann: Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory, Oxford University Press, 2000

Montvay / Münster: Quantum Fields on a Lattice, CUP, 1993

For a somewhat more mathematical treatment see the Lecture Notes by Pavel Etingof (MIT)

Altland / Simons: Condensed Matter Field Theory, CUP, 2010

McGreevy: Holographic duality with a view toward many-body physics


Handwritten notes of a similar course in 2009 and 2011

1 Path Integral or Functional Integral

2 Feynman Rules in the Path Integral Approach

3 Fermions in the Path Integral Approach

4 Path Integral Quantization of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories

5 BRST Symmetry and Physical Hilbert Space

6 QCD - Running Coupling and Beta Function

7 QCD - Operator product expansion

8 QCD - Parton Distribution Functions

9 Anomalies

10 Generating Functionals, Effective Actions and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Condensed Matter, AdS/CFT