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Particles and fields II - NJSF136
Title: Částice a pole II
Guaranteed by: Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics (32-UCJF)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2015
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: Mgr. Tomáš Sýkora, Ph.D.
Is incompatible with: NJSF137
Annotation -
Last update: T_UCJF (17.05.2011)
Contiuation of lecture NJSF134.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: Mgr. Tomáš Sýkora, Ph.D. (12.06.2019)

Oral exam combined with one problem to solve.

Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Tomáš Sýkora, Ph.D. (12.05.2019)

An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory; Michael E. Peskin, Dan V. Schroeder; Westview Press

Quantum Field Theory;Jean-Bernard Zuber, Claude Itzykson; Dover Publications

The Quantum Theory of Fields I-III; Steven Weinberg; Cambridge University Press

Gauge Theory of elementary particle physics; Ta-Pei Cheng, Ling-Fong Li; Oxford University Press

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Mgr. Tomáš Sýkora, Ph.D. (12.06.2019)

Oral exam, consisting of solving one assigned problem and three questions connected with topics mentioned in the lecture syllabus.

Syllabus -
Last update: T_UCJF (17.05.2011)
  • path integral - transition amplitude, time-ordering, Euclidian space-time, perturbation theory and loop expansion, grassmann variables
  • quantization of gauge fields - gauge fixing, Fadeev-Popov quantization, free electromagnetic and Yang-Mills fields, ghosts, θ-vacuums, instantons, projection operators as generators of local gauge transformations
  • anomalies - axial anomaly, anomaly in algebra of generators of gauge transformations
  • renormalization - finite renormalization, renormalization in quantum field theory, divergences and perturbative renormalization, renormalization in QED and QCD, running coupling constant
  • renormalization group equation - renormalization group, Callan-Symanzik equation, Wilson expansion, anomalous dimension, non-perturbative renormalization

 
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