Quantum Field Theory II, Spring 2020
Lecture Plan
Lectures will be broadcasted at bilibili during 13:30-16:10 Monday, and recorded videos will be uploaded to Youtube and Bilibili.
lecture1 (Outline and review, Path-integral formulation for Dirac and gauge fields)
lecture2 (Effective actions, QFT and Statistical mechanics)
lecture3 (Renormalization of QFTs and counter-terms)
lecture4 (Wilsonian effective action and Callan-Symanzik equation)
lecture5 (Wilson-Fisher fixed point and Coleman-Weinberg potential)
lecture6 (Lie groups/algebras and Yang-Mills theory)
lecture7 (Quantization of Yang-Mills theory)
lecture8. (Asymptotic freedom, dimensional transmutation, mass gap and Wilson loop)
lecture9 (Chiral anomaly, anomaly cancellation in chiral gauge theory)
lecture10 (Spontaneous symmetry breaking, chiral symmetry breaking, Higgs mechanism)
lecture11 (Brief history of particle physics and electroweak theory)
lecture12 (Electroweak theory continued, CP violation and CKM matrix)
lecture13 (Neutrino physics and QCD scattering)
lecture14 (Parton model and DGLAP equations)
We will follow Peskin and Schroeder, and I will not write detailed lecture notes.