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1 online resource |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Motivation; Chapter 2: Quantisation of Fields; Chapter 3: Euler-Lagrange Equations; Chapter 4: Tree-Level Diagrams; Chapter 5: Hamiltonian Perturbation Theory; Chapter 6: Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics; Chapter 7: Path Integrals in Field Theory; Chapter 8: Perturbative Expansion in Field Theory; Chapter 9: The Scattering Matrix; Chapter 10: Cross Sections; Chapter 11: Decay Rates; Chapter 12: The Dirac Equation; Chapter 13: Plane Wave Solutions of the Dirac Equation; Chapter 14: The Dirac Hamiltonian; Chapter 15: Path Integrals for Fermions |
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Chapter 16: Feynman Rules for Vector FieldsChapter 17: Quantum Electrodynamics-QED; Chapter 18: Non-Abelian Gauge Theories; Chapter 19: The Higgs Mechanism; Chapter 20: Gauge Fixing and Ghosts; Chapter 21: The Standard Model; Chapter 22: Loop Corrections and Renormalisation; Chapter 23: Problems; Back Cover |
| Summary |
""... A pleasant novelty that manages the impossible: a full course in field theory from a derivation of the Dirac equation to the standard electroweak theory in less than 200 pages. Moreover, the final chapter consists of a careful selection of assorted problems, which are original and either anticipate or detail some of the topics discussed in the bulk of the chapters. Instead of building a treatise out of a collection of lecture notes, the author took the complementary approach and constructed a course out of a number of well-known and classic treatises. The result is fresh and useful. ... the. |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
Field theory (Physics) -- Textbooks.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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Field theory (Physics) (OCoLC)fst00923918
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Textbooks. (OCoLC)fst01423863
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Baal, P. van (Pierre). Course in field theory. Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2014] 9781466594593 1466594594 (DLC) 2013026140 |
| ISBN |
9781466594609 (electronic book) |
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1466594608 (electronic book) |
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9781466594593 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1466594594 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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