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Physics 615, Fall 2013
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 9/5 Intro, Classical Field Theory Intro: view or print pp 1-10; PS 15-17
L2 9/9 Quantum Mechanics. Not particles but fields. Intro pp 10-19, PS 13-14,19-22
L3 9/12 Fields, propagators Intro pp 20-27, PS 22-33
H1 9/13 Homework Assignment # 1: view or print
L4 9/16 Noether's Theorem Lecture 4: full version: view or print
condensed version view or print; PS 17-19
L5 9/19 Applications of Noether Lecture 5: view or print.
H2 9/20 Homework Assignment # 2: view or print.
L6 9/23 The Poincare Group Lecture 6: view or print.
L7 9/26 Dirac and Weyl Fields Lecture 7: view or print.
H3 9/27 Homework Assignment # 3:.
L8 9/30 Free Dirac Particles Lecture 8: view or print plus PS pp 45-51.
H4 10/4 Homework Assignment # 4:
L9 10/3 Quantization of Dirac Fields Lecture 9: view or print plus PS pp 58-65.
L10 10/7 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 10/11 Project #1 due.
L12 10/14 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 10/22 Homework Assignment # 6:
L14 10/21 S-matrix from Feynman Diagrams Lecture 14: view or print plus PS pp 108-120.
L15 10/24 Fermion Potential by Yukawa and Photon Exchange Lecture 15: view or print plus read PS 118-126.
H7 10/29 Homework Assignment # 7:
L16 10/28 e+e→ μ+μ; R; eμ scattering. Lecture 16: view or print read PS 131-141, 153-158.
L17 10/31 Crossing symmetry, Compton scattering Lecture 17: view or print plus PS pp 159-169.
L18 11/4 Classical Bremsstrahlung Lecture 18: view or print plus PS pp 175-182
H8 11/5 Homework Assignment # 8:
L19 11/7 Quantum Bremsstrahlung, Vertex Function Lecture 19: view or print plus PS pp 182-189
Schwinger trick: view or print.
H9 11/13 Homework Assignment # 9:
L20 11/11 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 11/22 Homework Assignment # 10:
L22 11/18 Källen-Lehmann, Σ2. Z, Z2 Lecture 22: view or print plus PS pp 211-222.
L23 11/21 Photon propagator, renormalization of e Lecture 23: view or print plus PS pp 244-248,252-6.
L24 11/25 Counterterms; Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Lecture 24: view or printplus PS pp 347-352.
L25 11/26 SSB (cont.), Non-Abelian Gauge Theory Lecture 25: view or print plus
Gauge Theory on a Lattice, pp 1-15: view or print.
- - - 11/28 No class, Thanksgiving
H11 12/3 Homework Assignment # 11:
L26 12/2 Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Theory Lecture 26: view or view print plus Gauge Theory on a Lattice, pp 8-15
L27 12/5 Higgs Mechanism Lecture 27 plus PS pp 689-696 plus Higgs Examples
H12 Homework 12:
L28 12/9 GSW Electroweak Theory Lecture 28: view or print plus PS 701-705, 713-716.
 
   


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.



  Joel Shapiro (shapiro@physics.rutgers.edu)
  Last modified: Tue Nov 19 09:32:41 2013