Quantum Field Theory II - Département de Physique de l'Ecole Normale supérieure

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Quantum Field Theory II

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Faculty: Stéphane LAVIGNAC
Tutor : Raffaele Tito D’AGNOLO
ECTS credits : 3
Language of instruction: English
Examination: 3-hour written exam (Wednesday March 31st, 14:00-17:00, room L367)
Covid-19 alternative examination: Take Home Exam to be sent by email and a 10-minute oral exam per student based on the homework
Key words : quantum field theory, non-abelian gauge theories, spontaneous symmetry breaking,
electroweak interactions

Description

Description: this lecture provides an introduction to non-abelian gauge theories
and to the Standard Model of particle physics. Topics include: basics of non-abelian gauge theories (Yang-Mills); spontaneous symmetry breaking, Goldstone theorem and the Higgs mechanism; construction of the Standard Model and its main phenomenological aspects; quantization of non-abelian gauge theories; computation of the Yang-Mills beta function; anomalies.

Prerequisites: Quantum Field Theory I, basics of Feynman diagram computations
(see e.g. Schwartz or Peskin & Schroeder), basics of representations of Lie groups
(see e.g. Schwartz Section 25.1, or Peskin & Schroeder pp. 495-502)

References (non-exhaustive list):
Matthew Schwartz, Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model, Cambridge University Press (2014)
Michael Peskin and Daniel Schroeder, An introduction to Quantum Field Theory (1995)
Steven Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields (Volume II), Cambridge University Press (1996)

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