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