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Syllabus of the course: Quantum Field Theory ΙΙ


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CodeΦ-606
TypeB
ECTS5
Hours4
SemesterSpring
InstructorN. Tsamis
ProgramTuesday, 9:00-11:00, 2nd floor seminar room
Thursday, 9:00-11:00, 2nd floor seminar room
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Goal of the courseThe course is intended for graduate students. The basic aim of the course is to continue with more advanced techniques and applications of quantum field theory.
SyllabusFunctional methods in QFT. Renormalization. Renormalization Group. Non-Abelian gauge theories and their quantization. Asymptotic freedom. Introduction to QCD. Operator product expansion, electron-positron annihilation and deep-inelastic scattering. Anomalies.
BibliographyM. Peskin and D. Schroeder, “An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory”, Westview Press S. Weinberg, “The Quantum Theory of Fields”, Cambridge University Press

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