Search Rutgers   Search Physics Physics 615, Fall 2011 Syllabus   The syllabus is subject to change, often without advance notice, but the changes will probably be small. These will occur in response to the speed with which we cover material, individual class interests, and possible changes in the topics covered. At the bottom, there is a list of sections expected to be covered or excluded. My materials are generally available in view mode (one page per side, for viewing) and in print mode (two pages per side, for more efficient printing). References in the reading assignment to PS refer to pages in Peskin and Schroeder.

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	Date	Topic	Reading
L1	9/1	Intro, Classical Field Theory	Intro: view or print pp 1-12; PS 15-17
	9/5	No class, Labor Day
L2	9/8	Quantum Mechanics. Not particles but fields.	Intro pp 12-19, PS 13-14,19-22
L3	9/12	Fields, propagators	Intro pp 19-27, PS 22-33
L4	9/15	Noether's Theorem	Lecture 4: view or print; PS 17-19
H1	9/14	Homework Assignment # 1: view or print
L5	9/19	Applications of Noether	Lecture 5: view or print.
H2	9/21	Homework Assignment # 2: view or print.
L6	9/22	The Poincare Group	Lecture 6: view or print.
L7	9/26	Dirac and Weyl Fields	Lecture 7: view or print.
H3	9/28	Homework Assignment # 3:.
L8	9/29	Free Dirac Particles	Lecture 8: view or print plus PS pp 45-51.
L9	10/3	Quantization of Dirac Fields	Lecture 9: view or print plus PS pp 58-65.
H4	10/5	Homework Assignment # 4: view.
L10	10/6	Discrete Symmetries: P, C, and T	Lecture 10: view or print plus PS pp 65-71.
L11	10/10	Interacting Fields	Lecture 11: view or print plus PS pp 77-87.
P1=H5	10/12	Project #1 due.
L12	10/13	Wick's Theorem and Feynman Diagrams	Lecture 12: view or print plus PS pp 88-99.
L13	10/17	Cross sections and the S matrix	Lecture 13 read PS 99-108
H6	10/19	Homework Assignment # 6:
L14	10/20	S-matrix from Feynman Diagrams	Lecture 14: view or print plus PS pp 108-120.
L15	10/24	Feynman diagrams with fermions	Lecture 15 read PS 118-126.
H7	10/26	Homework Assignment # 7:view or print
L16	10/27	e+e–→ μ+μ–; R; eμ scattering.	Lecture 16 read PS 131-141, 153-158.
L17	10/31	Crossing symmetry, Compton scattering	Lecture 17: view or print plus PS pp 159-169.
H8	11/2	Homework Assignment # 8:
L18	11/3	Classical Bremsstrahlung	Lecture 18: view or print plus PS pp 175-182
L19	11/7	Quantum Bremsstrahlung, Vertex Function	Lecture 19: view or print plus PS pp 182-189 Schwinger trick: view or print.
H9	11/9	Homework Assignment # 9:
Around here we fell behind what is listed.
L20	11/10	Vertex correction, g-2	Lecture 20: view or print plus PS pp 191-196.
L21	11/14	δF1(q2)	Lecture 21: view or print plus PS pp 200-201
H10	11/16	Homework Assignment # 10:
L22	11/17	Källen-Lehmann, Σ2. Z, Z2	Lecture 22: view or print plus PS pp 211-222.
- - -	11/21	No class, officially a Wednesday
L23	11/22	Photon propagator, renormalization of e	Lecture 23: view or print plus PS pp 244-248,252-3.
- - -	11/24	No class, Thanksgiving
More realistically
L24	11/28	finite parts of Π(q2)	Lecture 24 plus PS pp 252-256.
H11	11/30	Homework Assignment # 11: P&S Problem 7.3
L25	12/1	Counterterms; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking	Lecture 25: view or print plus PS pp 347-352.
L26	12/5	Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theory	Lecture 26: view or print plus Gauge Theory on a Lattice, pp 1-15: view or print.
L27	12/8	Higgs Mechanism	Lecture 27: view or print plus PS pp 689-696
H12	12/9	Homework 12: view or print
L28	12/12	GSW Electroweak Theory	Lecture 28: view or print plus PS 701-705, 713-716.
Exam	TBA	NO FINAL EXAM

Sections covered
I expect to cover most of chapters 2-7 of Peskin and Schroeder, and also Sections 11.1, 16.1, 20.1 and 20.2.
Sections skipped: 5.2, 5.3, (6.4?), 6.5, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4.