- Docente: Roberto Soldati
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 9245)
Learning outcomes
The student will become acquainted with perturbation theory for interacting quantum fields and collision theory. In particular, he/she will have a basic knowledge of radiative corrections and vacuum polarization through the use of Feynman diagrams.
Course contents
The generating functional. The Feynman rules. The collision operator in perturbative quantum field theory. Cross-sections. Lowest order quasi-elastic processes. Radiative corrections. Vacuum polarization.
Readings/Bibliography
On Line Lecture Notes "Intermediate quantum field theory - A next-to-basic course for basic education" and references therein.
Teaching methods
Front teaching at the blackboard.
Assessment methods
Written and oral exams.
Teaching tools
Blackboard, questions, discussion.
Office hours
See the website of Roberto Soldati