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Peskin, Michael Edward, 1951-

An introduction to quantum field theory - Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1995. - xxii, 842 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.


Part I: Feyman Diagrams and Quantum ElctrodynamicsInvitation: Pair Production in e * r e ~ AnnihilationThe Klein Gordon FieldThe Dirac FieldInteracting Fields and Feynman DiagramsElementary Processes of Quantum Electrodynamics Radiative Corrections: IntroductionRadiative Corrections: Some Formal DevelopmentsPart II: RenormalizationInvitation: Ultraviolet Cutoffs and Critical FlucutationsFunctional MethodsSystematics of RenormalizationRenormalization and SymmetryThe Renormalization GroupCritical Exponents and Scalar Field TheoryPart III: Non-Abelian Gauge TheoriesInvitation: The Parton Model of Hadron StructureNon-Abelian Gauge InvarianceQuantization of Non-Abelian Gauge TheoriesQuantum ChromodynamicsOperator Products and Effective VerticesPertubation Theory AnomaliesGauge Theories with Spontaneous Symmetry BreakingQuantization of Spontaneously Broken Gauge TheoriesQuantum Field Theory at the Frontier

ISBN: 9780201503975 0201503972

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Quantum field theory.
Feynman diagrams.
Renormalization (Physics)
Gauge fields (Physics)

Dewey Class. No.: 530.143 / PES/I