Description: This author provides an easily accessible introduction to quantum field theory via Feynman rules and calculations in particle physics. His aim is to make clear what the physical foundations of present-day field theory are, to clarify the physical content of Feynman rules. The book begins with a brief review of some aspects of Einstein's theory of relativity that are of particular importance for field theory, before going on to consider the relativistic quantum mechanics of free particles, interacting fields, and particles with spin. The techniques learnt in the chapters are then demonstrated in examples that might be encountered in real accelerator physics. Further chapters contain discussions of renormalization, massive and massless vector fields and unitarity. A final chapter presents concluding arguments concerning quantum electrodynamics. The book includes valuable appendices that review some essential mathematics, including complex spaces, matrices, the CBH equation, traces and dimensional regularization. An appendix containing a comprehensive summary of the rules and conventions used is followed by an appendix specifying the full Lagrangian of the Standard Model and the corresponding Feynman rules. To make the book useful for a wide audience a final appendix provides a discussion of the metric used, and an easy-to-use dictionary connecting equations written with different metrics. Written as a textbook, many diagrams, exercises and examples are included. This book will be used by beginning graduate students taking courses in particle physics or quantum field theory, as well as by researchers as a source and reference book on Feynman diagrams and rules.
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EAN: 9780521456920
UPC: 9780521456920
ISBN: 9780521456920
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Item Length: 23.2 cm
Number of Pages: 300 Pages
Publication Name: Diagrammatica: the Path to Feynman Diagrams
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 232 mm
Subject: Physics
Publication Year: 1994
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 450 g
Author: Martinus Veltman
Item Width: 151 mm
Series: Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics
Format: Paperback
