Updated Feb 01, 2012

Advanced Relativistic Quantum Field Theory (FK7025) Course Information

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.

Text Book

  • Quantum Field Theory, by F. Mandl and G. Shaw (Second Edition from 2010)
  • Supplementary reading: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory , by Peskin and Schroeder

Lecture Notes

These notes are meant to supplement the book, not substitute it!

Homework Problems

Problem set 1 (due date: Dec 13, 2011)
Problem set 2 (due date: Jan 6, 2012)
Problem set 3 (due date: Feb 01, 2012)

Tutorial Notes

These 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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