Physics 7314/7360 2007

Syllabus

• Introduction
• Lorentz Transformations
• Scalar Field I - Intro
• Scalar Field II - Symmetry and Conservation
• Scalar Field III - Particles
• Antiparticles and Causality
• Particle Exchange and Potentials
• Interaction Picture and S matrix
• ABC Model Decay
• Scattering Cross Sections (General)
• AB to AB Scattering
• Resonances
• Groups and Representations
• Lorentz Group and Spinors
• Dirac Spinors and the Dirac Equation
• Quantum Electrodynamics and Gauge Symmetry
• QED Processes
• Deep Inelastic Scattering and Partons
• Loops and Renormalization
• Running Couplings and Masses
• Weak Interactions
• Vector Bosons
• Symmetries and the Vacuum
• Goldstone Bosons
• Higgs Mechanism
• Non-Abelian Gauge Field Lagrangians
• Higgs Mechanism in SU(2)xU(1)
• Quantum Chromodynamics
• Path Integrals and Lattice QCD

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