Anthony G. Williams (University of Adelaide)

Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

Classical Mechanics to Gauge Field Theories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This textbook offers a detailed and self-contained presentation of quantum field theory, suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses. The author provides full derivations wherever possible and adopts a pedagogical tone without sacrificing rigour. A fully worked solutions manual is available online for instructors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• New ed
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 210mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 2018g
• ISBN-13: 9781108470902
• ISBN-10: 1108470904
• Artikelnr.: 63761827

Autorenporträt

Anthony G. Williams is Professor in Physics at Adelaide University, Australia. He has worked extensively in the areas of hadronic physics and computational physics, studying quark and gluon substructure. For this work, he was awarded the Walter Boas Medal by the Australian Institute of Physics in 2001 and elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2002. In 2020, he became the Deputy Director of the Centre for Dark Matter Particle Physics of the Australian Research Council.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Lorentz and Poincare Invariance
2. Classical Mechanics
3. Relativistic Classical Fields
4. Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
5. Introduction to Particle Physics
6. Formulation of Quantum Field Theory
7. Interacting Quantum Field Theories
8. Symmetries and Renormalization
9. Nonabelian Gauge Theories.