Contents (attention: this refers to an earlier lecture - left here as an outlook):
- Quantization of Yang-Mills theories
We will mainly focus on going through the second half of Chris Quigg's excellent book, which focuses on the particle physics aspects of gauge theories. You can get the book from SLUB.
As a preliminary topic, however, we also work through the quantization of Yang-Mills theories, which is an important quantum field theoretical subject.
Learning outcomes for the first part of the lecture:
- write down the Yang-Mills Lagrangian, the gauge and BRS transformations
- describe some motivations and/or peculiar issues of Yang-Mills theories
- point out which additional Lagrangian terms are required for the quantization of Yang-Mills theories and describe the associated Feynman rules
- compute at least three crucial processes at tree-level, and derive the consequences of gauge invariance for each of them
- describe in words the problems and their miraculous solutions present in Yang-Mills theories
Exercise sheet for this part
2nd Exercise Sheet for this part
Additional literature for this part:
Second part
- Standard model gauge groups
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking
- Higgs mechanism
Exercise sheet 1
Lecture Notes
Third part