- Docente: Tiziano Peraro
- Credits: 6
- SSD: FIS/02
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 9245)
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from Feb 28, 2023 to May 30, 2023
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
- Perturbation theory for interacting quantum field theories
- S-Matrix, cross sections and decay rates
- Feynman diagrams and Feynman rules
- Path integrals and generating functionals
- Higher order corrections, regularization and renormalization
- Quantum electrodynamics (QED)
Readings/Bibliography
• M. Schwartz, Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model, (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• M. E. Peskin and D. V. Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, (Addison Wesley, 1995)
• M. Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory, (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Teaching methods
Blackboard lectures
Assessment methods
Written exam with questions about the theory and exercises.
Office hours
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