Gauge field theories / / Stefan Pokorski [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455044103321
• Autore: Pokorski Stefan <1942->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-107-11250-8; 0-511-01746-4; 1-280-41686-6; 9786610416868; 0-511-17244-3; 0-511-15120-9; 0-511-32323-9; 0-511-61234-6; 0-511-05304-5
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 609 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
• Disciplina: 530.14/35
• Soggetti: Gauge fields (Physics); Quantum field theory; Quantum chromodynamics; Symmetry (Physics)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-604) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; 0 Introduction; 1 Classical fields, symmetries and their breaking; 2 Path integral formulation of quantum field theory; 3 Feynman rules for Yang...Mills theories; 4 Introduction to the theory of renormalization; 5 Quantum electrodynamics; 6 Renormalization group; 7 Scale invariance and operator product expansion; 8 Quantum chromodynamics; 9 Chiral symmetry; spontaneous symmetry breaking; 10 Spontaneous and explicit global symmetry breaking; 11 Higgs mechanism in gauge theories; 12 Standard electroweak theory13 Chiral anomalies; 14 Effective lagrangians; 15 Introduction to supersymmetry; Appendix A Spinors ; and their properties; Appendix B Feynman rules for QED and QCD and Feynman integrals; Appendix C Feynman rules for the Standard Model; Appendix D One-loop Feynman integrals; Appendix E Elements of group theory; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Quantum field theory forms the present theoretical framework for our understanding of the fundamental interactions of particle physics. This up-dated and expanded text examines gauge theories and their symmetries with an emphasis on their physical and technical aspects. Beginning with a new chapter giving a systematic introduction to classical field theories and a short discussion of their canonical quantization and the discrete symmetries C, P and T, the book provides a brief exposition of perturbation theory, the renormalization programme, and the use of the renormalization group equation. It then explores topics of current research interest including chiral symmetry and its breaking, anomalies, and low energy effective lagrangians and some basics of supersymmetry. A chapter on basics of the electroweak theory is now included. Professor Pokorski, a distinguished theoretical physicist, has presented here a self-contained text for graduate courses in physics; the only prerequisite is some grounding in quantum field theory.