Quantum Field Theory I, Fall 2019
Lecture Plan
lecture1 (Introduction, Lagrangian formulation, Noether theorem)
lecture2 (Klein-Gordon fields, Feynman propagator)
lecture3 (Clifford algebra, Free Dirac fields)
lecture4 (Free Dirac fields II)
lecture5 (Free electromagnetic field, quantum fields with Interactions)
lecture6 (Perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams)
lecture7 (S-matrix)
lecture8 (QED at tree level)
lecture9 (Anomalous magnetic moment)
lecture10 (Infrared divergence, Bremsstrahlung, Electron self-energy, Mass renormalization)
lecture11 (Kallen-Lehmann spectral representation, LSZ reduction formula)
lecture12 (Optical theorem, Renormalization of electric charge, Running coupling constant)
lecture13 (Path-integral)
lecture14 (Schwinger-Dyson equation, Ward-Takahashi identity)
We will follow Peskin and Schroeder, and I will not write detailed lecture notes.