An Informal Introduction To Gauge Field Theories

Author : Ian J. R. Aitchison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521039543
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Informal Introduction to Gauge Field Theories written by Ian J. R. Aitchison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four forces are dominant in physics: gravity, electromagnetism and the weak and strong nuclear forces. Quantum electrodynamics - the highly successful theory of the electromagnetic interaction - is a gauge field theory. In this short book Dr Aitchison gives an introduction to these theories, a knowledge of which is essential in understanding modern particle physics.

Author : Ian Johnston Rhind Aitchison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Informal Introduction to Gauge Field Theories written by Ian Johnston Rhind Aitchison and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L. D. Faddeev
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429962371
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gauge Fields written by L. D. Faddeev and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2018. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Author : Luis Alvarez-Gaumé
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642237282
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Invitation to Quantum Field Theory written by Luis Alvarez-Gaumé and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to Quantum Field Theory (QFT) at an elementary level—with only special relativity, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics as prerequisites. For this fresh approach to teaching QFT, based on numerous lectures and courses given by the authors, a representative sample of topics has been selected containing some of the more innovative, challenging or subtle concepts. They are presented with a minimum of technical details, the discussion of the main ideas being more important than the presentation of the typically very technical mathematical details necessary to obtain the final results. Special attention is given to the realization of symmetries in particle physics: global and local symmetries, explicit, spontaneously broken, and anomalous continuous symmetries, as well as discrete symmetries. Beyond providing an overview of the standard model of the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions and the current understanding of the origin of mass, the text enumerates the general features of renormalization theory as well as providing a cursory description of effective field theories and the problem of naturalness in physics. Among the more advanced topics the reader will find are an outline of the first principles derivation of the CPT theorem and the spin-statistics connection. As indicated by the title, the main aim of this text is to motivate the reader to study QFT by providing a self-contained and approachable introduction to the most exciting and challenging aspects of this successful theoretical framework.

Author : Michio Masujima
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540481621
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Path Integral Quantization and Stochastic Quantization written by Michio Masujima and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we discuss the path integral quantization and the stochastic quantization of classical mechanics and classical field theory. For the description of the classical theory, we have two methods, one based on the Lagrangian formalism and the other based on the Hamiltonian formal ism. The Harniltonian formalisni is derived from the Lagrangian formalism. In the standard formalism of quantum mechanics, we usually make use of the Hamiltonian formalism. This fact originates from the following circumstance which dates back to the birth of quantum mechanics. The first formalism of quantum mechanics is Schrodinger's wave mechan ics. In this approach, we regard the Hamilton Jacobi equation of analytical mechanics as the Eikonal equation of "geometrical mechanics". Bsed on the optical analogy, we obtain the Schrodinger equation as a result of the inverse of the Eikonal approximation to the Hamilton Jacobi equation, and thus we arrive at "wave mechanics" . The second formalism of quantum mechanics is Heisenberg's "matrix me chanics". In this approach, we arrive at the Heisenberg equation of motion frorn consideration of the consistency of the Ritz combination principle, the Bohr quantization condition and the Fourier analysis of a physical quantity. These two forrnalisrns make up the Hamiltonian formalism of quantum me chanics.

Author : Gerald B. Folland
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470464837
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantum Field Theory: A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians written by Gerald B. Folland and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum field theory has been a great success for physics, but it is difficult for mathematicians to learn because it is mathematically incomplete. Folland, who is a mathematician, has spent considerable time digesting the physical theory and sorting out the mathematical issues in it. Fortunately for mathematicians, Folland is a gifted expositor. The purpose of this book is to present the elements of quantum field theory, with the goal of understanding the behavior of elementary particles rather than building formal mathematical structures, in a form that will be comprehensible to mathematicians. Rigorous definitions and arguments are presented as far as they are available, but the text proceeds on a more informal level when necessary, with due care in identifying the difficulties. The book begins with a review of classical physics and quantum mechanics, then proceeds through the construction of free quantum fields to the perturbation-theoretic development of interacting field theory and renormalization theory, with emphasis on quantum electrodynamics. The final two chapters present the functional integral approach and the elements of gauge field theory, including the Salam–Weinberg model of electromagnetic and weak interactions.

Author : Ashok Das
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811220883
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures On Quantum Field Theory (Second Edition) written by Ashok Das and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises the lectures of a two-semester course on quantum field theory, presented in a quite informal and personal manner. The course starts with relativistic one-particle systems, and develops the basics of quantum field theory with an analysis on the representations of the Poincaré group. Canonical quantization is carried out for scalar, fermion, Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories. Covariant quantization of gauge theories is also carried out with a detailed description of the BRST symmetry. The Higgs phenomenon and the standard model of electroweak interactions are also developed systematically. Regularization and (BPHZ) renormalization of field theories as well as gauge theories are discussed in detail, leading to a derivation of the renormalization group equation. In addition, two chapters — one on the Dirac quantization of constrained systems and another on discrete symmetries — are included for completeness, although these are not covered in the two-semester course.This second edition includes two new chapters, one on Nielsen identities and the other on basics of global supersymmetry. It also includes two appendices, one on fermions in arbitrary dimensions and the other on gauge invariant potentials and the Fock-Schwinger gauge.

Author : Laura Ruetsche
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191617377
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Quantum Theories written by Laura Ruetsche and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, philosophers of quantum mechanics have addressed exceedingly simple systems: a pair of electrons in an entangled state, or an atom and a cat in Dr. Schrödinger's diabolical device. But recently, much more complicated systems, such as quantum fields and the infinite systems at the thermodynamic limit of quantum statistical mechanics, have attracted, and repaid, philosophical attention. Interpreting Quantum Theories has three entangled aims. The first is to guide those familiar with the philosophy of ordinary QM into the philosophy of 'QM infinity', by presenting accessible introductions to relevant technical notions and the foundational questions they frame. The second aim is to develop and defend answers to some of those questions. Does quantum field theory demand or deserve a particle ontology? How (if at all) are different states of broken symmetry different? And what is the proper role of idealizations in working physics? The third aim is to highlight ties between the foundational investigation of QM infinity and philosophy more broadly construed, in particular by using the interpretive problems discussed to motivate new ways to think about the nature of physical possibility and the problem of scientific realism.

Author : M. P. KHANNA
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9788120312685
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book INTRODUCTION TO PARTICLE PHYSICS written by M. P. KHANNA and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and well-organized book focusses on the phenomeno-logical aspects of Particle Physics. It strikes a fine balance between those texts that require sophisticated mathematical physics and those that are too elementary. For, unlike in many books on the subject, which give prominence to gauge theories, the attempt here is to lay stress on phenomenology _ an aspect that needs exposure among students of high energy physics.

Author : Joao Carlos Alves Barata
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814544957
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Particles And Fields - Proceedings Of The Ixth Jorge Andre Swieca Summer School written by Joao Carlos Alves Barata and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-05-08 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of the IXth Jorge André Swieca Summer School — Particles and Fields — held at Campos do Jordao in February 1997.It surveys some of the most interesting research topics in theoretical physics, like duality theory, quantum field theory in curved space-time, supersymmetry and the standard model, differential geometry and its applications in physics and cosmic ray physics.