This is a collection of lecture notes evolving from classes held over the last years at Técnico Lisboa and the Universities of Giessen and Graz.
QCD and hadron physics
(updated 2020-11-08)1) Introduction
| 1.1) | Standard Model |
| 1.2) | Questions in hadron physics |
| 1.3) | QCD phase diagram |
| 1.4) | Theoretical methods |
2) QCD
| 2.1) | QCD Lagrangian |
| 2.2) | Quantization of QCD |
| 2.3) | Renormalization |
3) Hadrons
| 3.1) | Flavor symmetries and currents |
| 3.2) | Hadron spectrum |
4) Low-energy phenomenology
| 4.1) | Quark models |
| 4.2) | Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking |
| 4.3) | Axial anomaly |
| 4.4) | Chiral effective field theories |
| 4.5) | Form factors and scattering amplitudes |
5) High-energy phenomenology
| 5.1) | Deep inelastic scattering and PDFs |
| 5.2) | Factorization and Jets |
Appendices:
| A) | SU(N) |
| B) | Poincaré group |
| C) | Euclidean conventions |
References:
- Donoghue, Dynamics of the Standard Model. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Halzen and Martin, Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics. Wiley, 1984
- Thomas and Weise, The Structure of the Nucleon. Wiley-VCH, 2001.
- Maggiore, A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Oxford 2005.
- Peskin and Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Perseus 1995.
- Pokorski, Gauge field theories, Cambridge 2000.
Quantum Field Theory
| 0) | Introduction |
| 1) | Classical scalar fields |
| 2) | Quantization of scalar fields |
| 3) | Dirac field |
| 4) | Quantization of the Dirac field |
| 5) | Electromagnetic field |
| 6) | Interactions and the S-matrix |
| 7) | Perturbation theory |
| 8) | Loops and renormalization |
| 9) | Cross sections and decay rates |
| 10) | QED |
| 11) | Renormalization of QED |
| 12) | Path integrals |
| 13) | Non-Abelian gauge theories |
Main references:
- Maggiore, A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Oxford 2005.
- Peskin and Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Perseus 1995.
- Weigand, Quantum Field Theory, lecture notes, Heidelberg 2013.
Further reading:
- Weinberg, Quantum Field Theory I + II, Cambridge 1995.
- Itzykson and Zuber, Quantum Field Theory, McGraw-Hill 1980.
- Huang, Quantum Field Theory: From Operators to Path Integrals, Wiley 2004.
- Srednicki, Quantum Field Theory, Cambridge 2007.
- Kaku, Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Introduction, Oxford 1993.
- Ryder, Quantum Field Theory, Cambridge 1996.
- Banks, Modern Quantum Field Theory: A Concise Introduction, Cambridge 2008.
- Haag, Local Quantum Physics: Fields, Particles, Algebras, Springer 1996.
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