FYSS4515 Kvanttikenttäteorian sovellukset (11 op)

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Opinnon taso:

Syventävät opinnot

Arviointiasteikko:

0-5

Suorituskieli:

englanti

Vastuuorganisaatio:

Fysiikan laitos

Opetussuunnitelmakaudet:

2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020

Kuvaus

Sisältö

Review of functional methods; systematics of renormalization, BPHZ-method; renormalization of QED and Ward identities, explicit 1-loop renormalization; infrared divergences and soft brehmsstrahlung; renormalization group: Wilsonian flow, Callan-Symantzik equation; beta functions and anomalous dimensions, one-loop running of couplings; renormalization of Yang-Mills theory, asymptotic freedom; Parton model and quark model for QCD; critical phenomena and epsilon-expansion, critical exponents; effective action and (RG-improved) effective potential; renormalization of spontaneously broken theories; standard Model of electroweak interactions; precision electroweak observables; quantum anomalies: chiral and conformal anomalies and ABJ-anomalies.

Suoritustavat

Interactive lectures, assignments, traditional examination, home examination.

Arviointiperusteet

The final grade is based on assignments (25-40 %) and examination (75-60 %). The weighting depends on the completion mode.

Osaamistavoitteet

At the end of this course, students will understand fully the content of the renormalization program and be able to apply renormalization methods to compute higher order corrections to scattering processes and to study the scale dependence of couplings. Students will be able to understand the particular features of renormalization of Yang-Mills gauge theories and be able to compute critical exponents using field theory methods. They will understand the meaning of the effective action and effective potential and knows how to compute quantum corrections to them. They will be able to fully undestand the structure and quantization of the standard model of electroweak interactions and know how to compute precision electroweak observables. They will undestand how chiral and ABJ-anomalies arise and what they mean for renormalizability.

Lisätietoja

Given on autumn semester every other year, starting autumn 2018

Esitietojen kuvaus

FYSS4510 Kvanttikenttäteoria

Kirjallisuus

Peskin & Schroder, An introduction to Quantum Field theory, Westview Press, ISBN 0-201-50397-2; Srednicki, Quantum field theory, Cambridge, ISBN 987-0-521-86449-7.; ISBN: 987-0-521-86449-7

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