An Invitation to Quantum Field Theory (Softcover)

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VERY GOOD: This book is in very good condition, showing only the slightest signs of use and wear. It was printed on acid-free paper.

Product Details

This is #839 in theLecture Notes in Physics series from Springer.

From the back cover: "For this fresh approach to teaching QFT, based on numerous lectures and courses given by the authors, a representative sample of topics has been selected containing some of the more innovative, challenging or subtle concepts. They are presented with a minimum of technical details, the discussion of the main ideas being more important than the presentation of the typically very technical mathematical details necessary to obtain the final results.

"Special attention is given to the realization of symmetries in particle physics: global and local symmetries, explicit, spontaneously broken, and anomalous continuous symmetries, as well as discrete symmetries. Beyond providing an overview of the standard model of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions and the current understanding of the origin of mass, the text enumerates the general features of renormalization theory as well as providing a cursory description of effective field theories and the problem of naturalness in physics. Among the more advanced topics the reader will find are an outline of the first principles derivation of the CPT theorem nd the spin-statistics connection.

"As indicated by the title, the main aim of this text is to motivate the reader to study QFT by providing a self-contained and approachable introduction to the most exciting and challenging aspects of this successful theoretical framework."

BRIEF CONTENTS

Chapters

1. Why Do We Need Quantum Field Theory After All?
2. From Classical to Quantum Fields
3. Theories and Lagrangians I: Matter Fields
4. Theories and Lagrangians II: Introducing Gauge Fields
5. Theories and Lagrangians III: The Standard Model
6. Towards Computational Rules: Feynman Diagrams
7. Symmetries I: Continuous Symmetries
8. Renormalization
9. Anomalies
10. The Origin of Mass
11. Symmetries II: Discrete Symmetries
12. Effective Field Theories and Naturalness
13. Special Topics

Appendices

1. Notation, Conventions and Units
2. A Crash Course in Group Theory

The book ends with an Index.