An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (Frontiers in Physics) Michael E. Peskin (著)
Contents (summary)
Preface xi
Notations and Conventions xix
Part I: Feynman Diagrams and Quantum Electrodynamics
1 Invitation: Pair Production in e+e- Annihilation 3
2 The Klein-Gordon Field 13
3 The Dirac Field 35
4 Interacting Fields and Feynman Diagrams 77
5 Elementary Processes of Quantum Electrodynamics 131
6 Radiative Corrections: Introduction 175
7 Radiative Corrections: Some Formal Developments 211
Final Project: Radiation of Gluon Jets 259
Part II: Renormalization
8 Invitation: Ultraviolet Cutoffs and Critical Fluctuations 265
9 Functional Methods 275
10 Systematics of Renormalization 315
11 Renormalization and Symmetry 347
12 The Renormalization Group 393
13 Critical Exponents and Scalar Field Theory 439
Final Project: The Coleman-Weinberg Potential 469
