Advanced Relativistic Quantum Field Theory (FK7025) Course Information
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The take-home exam and instructions for submitting your answers:
1) This is a 24 hours take-home exam starting Feb 1, 2012 at 10:00.
Solve all 8 questions and explain your reasoning and calculations
clearly. The exam is available
here . Correction: the submission date is Feb 2, 2012.
2) Write your name on a separate sheet of paper attached to your
answers. The pages containing your answers should not have your name
written on them.
3) Submit your answers along with the name page to Marieanne Holmberg
at studentexpedition either as a hard copy or by email.
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Text Book
Lecture NotesThese notes are meant to supplement the book, not substitute it!
Homework ProblemsProblem set 1 (due date: Dec 13, 2011)Problem set 2 (due date: Jan 6, 2012) Problem set 3 (due date: Feb 01, 2012) Tutorial NotesThese are available from the web page of Stefan Sjörs .Course Content |
Symmetries and conservation laws in field theory (proof and
applications of Noether's theorem), Quantization of relativistic free
fields (scalar field, electromagnetic field and the Dirac field).
Interacting fields and perturbation theory, calculation of scattering
cross-sections. Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) and calculation of cross
sections in Bhaba, Möller and Compton scattering. Radiative
corrections: regularization, renormalization, calculation of
Lamb-shift and anomalous magnetic moment. Non-abelian gauge theories
and their quantization, Fadeev-Popov ghosts and BRST quantization.
Quantum Chromodynamics. Introduction to Weak interactions, spontaneous
symmetry breaking, Goldstone and Higgs mechanisms, Yukawa couplings,
theory of electroweak interactions and the standrd model of particle
physics.
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