Quantum Field Theory III (QFT-III)
| Fall Semester 2012 (1391-1) |
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| Lecturer: | Neda Sadooghi |
| Office: | Room 333, Physics Department |
| Time: | Saturdays and Mondays, 8:30 - 10:30 |
| Place: | CEP Seminar Room 517, Physics Department |
| Office hours: | Saturdays 12:30-13:30 |
| Schedules: |
| Semester starts on: | Shahrivar 25, 1391 | |
| Semester ends on: | Dey 6, 1391 | |
| Homework: | Every two weeks | |
| Final Exam: | Take Home |
| References: | ||
| M.E. Peskin and D.V. Schroeder | An Introduction to QFT - Part III | |
| S. Weinberg | The Quantum Theory of Fields | |
| S. Pokorski | Gauge Field Theory | |
| L. H. Ryder | QFT | |
| C. Itzykson and J. B. Zuber | QFT | |
| Contents: | ||
| Part I: Spontaneously broken global symmetries | ||
| Degenerate vacua | ||
| Spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle and condensed matter physics | ||
| Goldstone theorem I | ||
| Goldstone theorem II | ||
| Spontaneously broken approximate symmetries (pseudo-Goldstone bosons) | ||
| Example: Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking | ||
| Higgs mechanism | ||
| Goergi-Glashow model | ||
| Glashow-Weinberg-Salam theory of weak interaction | ||
| Part II: Operator product expansion | ||
| Renormalization of composite operators | ||
| The expansion: description and derivation | ||
| Symmetry properties of coefficient functions | ||
| Part III: Anomalies | ||
| The π0 2γ decay | ||
| Abelian anomaly | ||
| Non-abelian anomaly (Adler-Bardeen non-renormalization theorem) | ||
| Anomaly free gauge theories (anomaly cancellation in SM) | ||
| Covariant and consistent anomalies | ||
| Wess-Zumino consistency conditions | ||
| Anomaly and Index theorem | ||
| U(1) problem | ||
| Instantons and θ-vacua | ||
| Axions in QFT | ||
| Part III: An Introcuction to Lattice Gauge Theory | ||
| Your Score: | Schedule | % of your final score | ||||
| Homeworks | Every two weeks | %30 | ||||
| Midterm Exam | %70 | |||||
| Final Exam | ||||||
| Seminar talks | ||||||
| Lectures: | pdf-files | Date | pdf-files | Date | pdf-files | Date |
| Lecture 1 | Lecture 10 | Lecture 19 | ||||
| Lecture 2 | Lecture 11 | Lecture 20 | ||||
| Lecture 3 | Lecture 12 | Lecture 21 | ||||
| Lecture 4 | Lecture 13 | Lecture 22 | ||||
| Lecture 5 | Lecture 14 | Lecture 23 | ||||
| Lecture 6 | Lecture 15 | Lecture 24 | ||||
| Lecture 7 | Lecture 16 | Lecture 25 | ||||
| Lecture 8 | Lecture 17 | Lecture 26 | ||||
| Lecture 9 | Lecture 18 | Lecture 27 | ||||
| Lecture Notes: | pdf-files | |||||
| Lecture Notes | ||||||
| The Scores: | |||
| Final Scores |
| Term Papers: | |
| Topics: | |
| Jahed Abedi | Conformal Field Theory (An introduction) |
| Shima Asnafi | Trace anomaly in QFT |
| Farid Taghinavaz | Chiral Magnetic Effect |
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