PHYS 583 :: Physics :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Course Description

Topic list:
Renormalized perturbation theory and loop diagrams
QED at one loop
The renormalization group
Nonabelian gauge theory
Gauge fixing and BRST quantization
Anomalies
Higgs mechanism 

References:
Peskin and Schroeder, An Introduction to QFT
Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields vols 1,2
Cheng and Li, Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics
Banks, Modern QFT

Problems will mostly come from Peskin and Schroeder, but notation and techniques introduced in lecture will differ in some respects.