| Lecturer: | Kimmo Kainulainen | FL220 | ||
| Lectures 28 h: | Mon and Wed 10.15-12.00 | YFL226 | ||
| Course time: | 2.9.-11.12 | |||
| Grading assistant |
Ismail Soudi |
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| Excercises 28 h: | Wed 14.15-16.00 | YFL226 | ||
| EXAM | 17.12.2024 |
Systematics of renormalization, BPHZ-method. Renormalization of QED and Ward identities, explicit 1-loop renormalization. Infrared divergences and soft brehmsstrahlung. Renormalization group: Wilsonian flow, Callan-Symantzik equation. Beta functions and anomalous dimensions, one-loop running of couplings. Renormalization of Yang-Mills theory, asymptotic freedom. Parton model and quark model for QCD. Critical phenomena and epsilon-expansion, critical exponents. Effective action and renormalization-group-improved effective potential. Renormalization of spontaneously broken theories. Standard model of electroweak interactions. Precision electroweak observables. Quantum anomalies: chiral and conformal anomalies and ABJ-anomalies
| M.E. Peskin and D.V. Schroeder | An introduction to quantum field theory, Westview 1995 | |
| M. Kaku | Quantum field theory, Oxford 1993 | |
| C. Itzykson and J-B. Zuber | Quantum field theory, McGraw-Hill, 1980 | |
| T-P Cheng and L-F. Li | Gauge theory of elementary particle physics, Oxford 1984 | |
| D.J. Amit and V. Martin-Mayor | Field theory, Renormalization group and critical phenomena, World Scientific, 2005 |
Of these by far the best fit to the course is Peskin and Schroeder. Moreover, Cheng and Li is excellent addition to many topics. Itzykson and Zuber and Kaku are not as well suited to our purposes, but provide good back up in formal issues. Amit and Martin-Mayor is very broad in issues related to renormalization group.
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