Quantum Field Theory

3 credits

Canonical quantization; free scalar, vector and spinor fields; interacting fields; pertubation theory and and Feynman diagrams; quantum electrodynamics, renormalization, gauge fields. ***Prerequisite: Enrolment restricted to graduate students in Physics, except with permission of Department Head.*** *Familiarity with axiomatic formulation, representations, angular momentum and spin, perturbation theory, systems of identical particles, and matrix mechanics is expected.*