Place and Time

Room: OC218
Time: Mo, We, Fri 9-11 am

Recommended Lecture Notes

Content of Lecture

Introduction to Field Theory

  • Symmetries & Hamiltonian Field Theory
  • Canonical Quantisation
  • Klein Gordon Equation
  • Lorentz Invariance & Causality
  • Complex Scalar Field & Propagators
  • Interaction Picture & Dyson Formula
  • Wick's Theorem
  • LSZ Theorem, Loops & Amputated Diagrams
  • Scalar Theory & Cross Sections
  • Dirac Fields
  • Quantising the Dirac Field
  • Dirac Propagators & Perturbation Theory

Recommended Literature

  • An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Peskin & Schroeder
  • Quantum Field Theory by Srednicki
  • The Quantum Theory of Fields by Weinberg