Topics in high energy and particle theory (a.k.a. Hadrons class)

Instructor

• Pok Man Lo (Prof. UWr)
• 428 Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw
• email me
• course website

Other courses

• link to NumQM course
• link to QFT course

Time and Place

• Thursday 1630-1800 @ 422 IFT

Textbooks

• Nuclear and High Energy Physics

  • Donoghue, Golowich, and Holstein, Dynamics of the Standard Model
  • Povh, Rith, Scholz, Zetsche, and Rodejohann, Particles and Nuclei

• Basic QFT

  • Peskin and Schroeder, An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

• Many Body Theory

  • Negele and Orland, Quantum Many-Particle Systems
  • J. Kapusta and C. Gale, Finite-Temperature Field Theory: Principles and Applications
  • A. Fetter and J.D. Walecka, Quantum Theory of Many Particle Systems

Course Description

This is a graduate course (elective) on theoretical aspects of quantum many body system. Quantum field theory is an enormous subject and this course only gets you started. The choice of topics only reflects my personal research interest and is biased towards applications in QCD. It aims to develop various analytical and numerical techniques in solving non-perturbative problems in field theory.

Possible topics to be discussed are

(1) Elementary Particle Physics: Fermi’s Golden Rule, Feynman Diagrams, and Scattering Theory

(2) Quantum Field Theory at zero and finite temperature

(3) Symmetries and their spontaneous breaking

(4) Non-perturbative methods in QFT

(5) Quark-hadron phase transition