Dozent: Ulf - G. Meißner and, Akaki Rusetsky

 

Vorlesung: Mi 10-12, Do 9-10, HS, HISKP

Exercise groups:

Mo. 12-14, SR I HISKP

Mo. 14-16, HS HISKP

Tue. 8-10, Ü6, Raum 0.022, AVZ I

We. 12-14, Seminarraum im Wolfgang-Paul Gebäude

Lectures:

1. Introduction: the necessity of the quantum field theory description of the relativistic systems

2. Quantization of a field

3. The Poincare group

4. Symmetries and conservation laws

5. Quantization of a free scalar field

6. Free Dirac field

7. Electromagnetic field

8. Interacting fields, discrete symmetries

9. Perturbation theory

10. Wick's theorem

11. Interpolating fields, S-matrix and cross sections

12. Examples: scattering amplitude

13. The two-point function of a scalar field at one loop

14. Classification of the divergences

15. One loop in QED

16. The Ward identity

17. Scattering in the external field; the magnetic moment of the electron

18. Infrared singularities

19. Analytic properties of the Feynman diagrams

20. Singularities in the perturbation theory. Landau equations

21. Singularities of the scattering amplitude

 

Exercises:

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exersise 4

Exercise 5

Exercise 6

Exercise 7

Exercise 8

Exercise 9

Exercise 10

Exercise 11

Exercise 12

Exercise 13

 

 

 

First exam: Tuesday, July 26, 10:00-13:00 in HS 1

Second exam: Friday, October 7, 9:00-12:00 in HS 1