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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 June 2011
      16 June 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511564079
      9780521456920
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511564079
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.371kg, 300 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Mathematical Physics, Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Physics
      Series:
      Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics (4)
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    Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Mathematical Physics, Theoretical Physics and Mathematical Physics
    Series:
    Cambridge Lecture Notes in Physics (4)
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    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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    "...a masterful introduction to quantum field theory and its application to elementary particle physics through Feynman diagrams. The approach is constructive rather than deductive, and the book offers many fine insights into the physics content of results that may be thought of as purely mathematical." Ernest Ma and Jose Wudka, Physics Today

    "...would be a useful and solid starting point for a novice field theorist..." R. Delbourgo, Mathematical Reviews

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