Physics 217
Fall 2012
Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
University of California at Santa Cruz
TTh 10:00-11:45pm, ISB 235
 
TEXT: Peskin and Schroeder, Quantum Field Theory
Instructor: Michael Dine
Office: 323 ISB
Phone: (831) 459-3033
Email: dine@scipp.ucsc.edu
 
Office Hours:
2:00 - 4:00 Tuesday
And by appointment if necessary
 
 

Syllabus

Centenary Edition of Reviews of Modern Physics: Article on Quantum Field Theory

Handout on Relativity

Bjorken and Drell on Dirac Equation

Handout: Action for a Relativistic Particle

Handout: Propagator for Free Scalar Field

Non-Relativistic Dirac Equation

Lectures on Quantization of the Dirac Field (updated)

Lectures on Interacting Fields and the Perturbation Expansion

Lectures on QED

Lectures on Loop Corrections and Renormalization

Homework Assignments