Quantum Field Theory
-70%
Availability: In Stock

Quantum Field Theory

SKU: 9780486134697

Original price was: $39.95.Current price is: $11.99.

Access Quantum Field Theory Now. Discount up to 90%

Categories: ,

Additional information

Full Title

Quantum Field Theory
Author(s)

Jean-Bernard Zuber, Claude Itzykson
Edition
ISBN

9780486134697, 9780486445687
Publisher

Dover Publications
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Quantum field theory remains among the most important tools in defining and explaining the microscopic world. Recent years have witnessed a blossoming of developments and applications that extend far beyond the theory’s original scope. This comprehensive text offers a balanced treatment, providing students with both a formal presentation and numerous practical examples of calculations. This two-part approach begins with the standard quantization of electrodynamics, culminating in the perturbative renormalization. The second part comprises functional methods, relativistic bound states, broken symmetries, nonabelian gauge fields, and asymptotic behavior. Appropriate for students and researchers in field theory, particle physics, and related areas, this treatment presupposes a background in quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, and relativity, and it assumes some familiarity with classical calculus, including group theory and complex analysis.

Related products

Quantum Field Theory
-70%
Availability: In Stock

Quantum Field Theory

SKU: 9789813141742

Original price was: $27.00.Current price is: $8.10.

Access Quantum Field Theory Now. Discount up to 90%

Categories: ,

Additional information

Full Title

Quantum Field Theory
Author(s)

Harald Fritzsch
Edition
ISBN

9789813141742, 9789813141728, 9789813141735
Publisher

World Scientific
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The matter in our universe is composed of electrons and quarks. The dynamics of electrons and quarks is described by the Standard Model of particle physics, which is based on quantum field theories. The general framework of quantum field theories is described in this book. After the classical mechanics and the relativistic mechanics the details of classical scalar fields, of electrodynamics and of quantum mechanics are discussed. Then the quantization of scalar fields, of spinor fields and of vector fields is described.The basic interactions are described by gauge theories. These theories are discussed in detail, in particular the gauge theories of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), based on the gauge group SU(3). In both theories the gauge bosons, the photon and the gluons, have no mass. The gauge theory of the electroweak interactions, based on the gauge group SU(2) x U(1), describes both the electromagnetic and the weak interactions. The weak force is generated by the exchange of the weak bosons. They have a large mass, and one believes that these masses are generated by a spontaneous breaking of the gauge symmetry.It might be that the strong and the electroweak interactions are unified at very high energies (“Grand Unification”). The gauge groups SU(3) and SU(2) x U(1) must be subgroups of a big gauge group, describing the Grand Unification. Two such theories are discussed, based on the gauge groups SU(5) and SO(10).

Related products