- Docente: Roberto Balbinot
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/02
- Language: English
- Moduli: Roberto Soldati (Modulo 1) Roberto Balbinot (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 9245)
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student will learn advanced tools of relativistic quantum field theory and general relativity, with applications to: the gauge theories of the electro-weak and strong interactions; quantum field theory in curved space-times and Hawking radiation in black holes.
Course contents
Part I : Advanced Quantum Field Theory (R. Soldati)
Effective action, spontaneous symmetry breaking, Schwinger-Dyson equation,Weinberg theorem, renormalization of self interacting scalar field theory.
Renormalization group, renormalization prescriptions, 1-loop renormalization of QED, Ward identities
Quantization of non abelian gauge theories, Fadeev-Popov method, BRST symmetry , beta function at one-loop.
Part II : Quantum Field in Curved Space and Black Holes (R. Balbinot)
Quantization in curved space time
Bogoliubov transformation
Quantum fields in Schwarzshild space time
Hawking effect
Vacuum states in Schwarzshild space time
Unruh effect
Readings/Bibliography
Part I : lectures notes by Prof. R. Soldati
Part II :
N.D. Birrel and P.C.W. Davies : Quantum Fields in Curved Space ( Cambridge University Press)
A. Fabbri and J. Navarro Salas : Modeling Black Hole Evaporation ( Imperial College Press )
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Lectures notes for Part I
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Balbinot
See the website of Roberto Soldati