Introduction to Quantum Field Theory - SS 1402-03 (2024)
- Lecturer: Neda Sadooghi
- Office: Room 519, Physics Department
- Time: Saturdays and Mondays 08:30 - 10:30
- Place: Partovi Lecture Hall, Room 412, Physics Department
- Office Hours: By arrangement
- Contact: sadooghi@sharif.edu
- Semester starts on: Saturday 1402/11/14
- Semester ends on: Saturday 1403/03/07
- Midterm Exam on: Monday 1403/02/03
- Final Exam on: Wednesday 1403/03/30
| Part I: Single Particle Relativistic Wave Function | |
| Classical field theory of continuous systems | |
| Global symmetries and Noether theorem | |
| Klein-Gordon equation | |
| Dirac equation | |
| Free particle solutions of Dirac equation | |
| Chiral fields | |
| Discrete symmetries | |
| Part II: Canonical Quantization and Particle Interpretation | |
| Real Klein-Gordon field | |
| Complex Klein-Gordon field | |
| Electromagnetic field (in radiation and covariant gauge) | |
| Dirac Field | |
| Part III: Interacting Fields and Feynman Diagrams | |
| Perturbative expansion of correlation functions | |
| Wick's theorem for bosons and fermions | |
| Feynman diagrams | |
| Feynman rules for scalar theory | |
| Feynman rules and integrals for Yukawa theory | |
| Feynman rules and integrals for Quantum Electrodynamics | |
| S-Matrix elements from Feynman diagrams | |
| Yukawa Potential in semi-classical limit | |
| See CW please |
