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Title

A first book of quantum field theory / Amitabha Lahiri, Palash B. Pal.

Author

Lahiri, Amitabha.

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press ; New Delhi : Narosa Pub. House, c2001.

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Additional Authors

Pal, P. B. (Palash B.)

Description

xv, 371 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book introduces QFT for a reader with no prior knowledge of the subject. It is meant to be a textbook for the advanced undergraduate or beginning postgraduate students. The book discusses quantization of fields, S-matrix theory, Feynman diagrams, calculation of decay rates and cross sections, renormalization, symmetries and symmetry breaking. Some background material on classical field theory and group theory, needed for the exposition, are also presented in the book. Detailed calculations of week and electromagnetic processes are included. There are many exercise problems to help the reader and the instructor."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Quantum field theory

Subject

Quantum field theory

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preliminaries -- Classical field theory -- Quantization of scalar fields -- Quantization of Dirac fields -- The S-matrix expansion -- From Wick expansion to Feynman diagrams -- Cross sections and decay rates -- Quantization of the electromagnetic field -- Quantum electrodynamics -- P, T, C and their combinations -- Electromagnetic form factors -- Renormalization -- Symmetries and symmetry breaking -- Yang-Mills theory of non-Abelian gauge fields -- Standard electroweak theory -- Useful formulas.

ISBN

0849309778 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00050745^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library