Topics in high energy and particle theory

Instructor

• Pok Man Lo (Prof. UWr)

• 428 Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw

• email me

• course website

• link to NumQM

Time and Place

• Wednesday 0815-1000 @ 422 IFT

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 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.

Primary 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

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