| Code: | F 925 |
| Department: | Department of Theoretical Physics |
| Course director: | László Fehér |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Semester: | 9th |
| Hours/week: | 3+0 |
| Prerequisities: | Nuclear and Particle Physics 2. |
| Type of assessment: | Szj |
Course description:
The Poincaré group. Lagrange
and Hamilton formalism in classical field theory, Noether theorems, the
energy-momentum tensor. Canonical quantisation: Klein-Gordon field as an
example. The one-particle Dirac equation. The quantized Dirac field. Quantization
of free electromagnetic field. Covariant perturbation theory: time ordered Green
functions, Wick's theorem, Feynman graphs. S-matrix and LSZ reduction formulae.
Examples of perturbative calculations, divergences, renormalisation. Gauge-invariance,
Yang-Mills fields, spontaneous symmetry breaking, the standard model.
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