PHYS 575 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Textbooks

We will primarily use the following textbooks for this course, all of which are required. All three will be available in the bookstore and on reserve at Grainger Engineering Library. In particular, the books by Larkoski and Peskin do not require any knowledge of quantum field theory, and perform many of the same calculations as Schwartz using reasoning motivated by quantum mechanics.

Schwartz, Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model
Larkoski, Elementary Particle Physics: An Intuitive Introduction
Peskin, Concepts of Elementary Particle Physics

For additional reading, you many find the following books useful:

Peskin and Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Chen (ed.), Quantum Field Theory Lectures of Sidney Coleman