PHYS 583 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Course Description

583 is a continuation of 582. Topics will include perturbative QED. Renormalization. RG. Perturbative QCD. Anomalies. Symmetry breaking and Higgs phenomenon. 

Textbook (required)

Peskin and Schroeder, An Introduction to QFT

Supplemental Texts:

These are other quantum physics textbooks that provide an alternative point of view to P and S:

• Weinberg, The quantum theory of fields I, II
• David Tong's lecture notes: QFT, Gauge Theories
• Rob Leigh's lecture notes: 582, 583
• Tony Zee: QFT in a nutshell
• Shrednicki
• Brown

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