Advanced Quantum Field Theory 2 (AdvQFT-II)
| Spring Semester 2021 (1399-2) |
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| Lecturer: | Neda Sadooghi |
| Office: | Room 519, Physics Department |
| Time: | Saturdays and Sundays: 10:00 - 12:00 |
| Place: | https://vclass.ecourse.sharif.edu/ch/sadooghi |
| Office hours: | Saturdays 13:30 - 14:30 |
| Schedules: |
| Semester starts on: | 09/12/1399 | |
| Semester ends on: | ||
| Homework: | TBA | |
| Final Exam: | Take Home |
| References: | ||
| M.E. Peskin and D.V. Schroeder | An Introduction to QFT - Part III | |
| S. Weinberg | The Quantum Theory of Fields | |
| S. Pokorski | Gauge Field Theory | |
| L. H. Ryder | QFT | |
| C. Itzykson and J. B. Zuber | QFT | |
| Contents: | ||
| Part I: Spontaneously broken global symmetries | ||
| Degenerate vacua | ||
| Spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle and condensed matter physics | ||
| Goldstone theorem I | ||
| Goldstone theorem II | ||
| Spontaneously broken approximate symmetries (pseudo-Goldstone bosons) | ||
| Example: Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking | ||
| Higgs mechanism | ||
| Goergi-Glashow model | ||
| Glashow-Weinberg-Salam theory of weak interaction | ||
| Part II: Operator product expansion | ||
| Renormalization of composite operators | ||
| The expansion: description and derivation | ||
| Symmetry properties of coefficient functions | ||
| Part III: Anomalies | ||
| The π0 2γ decay | ||
| Abelian anomaly | ||
| Non-abelian anomaly (Adler-Bardeen non-renormalization theorem) | ||
| Anomaly free gauge theories (anomaly cancellation in SM) | ||
| Covariant and consistent anomalies | ||
| Wess-Zumino consistency conditions | ||
| Anomaly and Index theorem | ||
| U(1) problem | ||
| Instantons and θ-vacua | ||
| Axions in QFT | ||
| Part IV: Advanced Particle Physics | ||
| Your Score: | Schedule | % of your final score | ||||
| Homeworks | %30 | |||||
| Midterm Exam | %70 | |||||
| Final Exam | ||||||
| Seminar talks | ||||||
| Lectures: | pdf-files | Date | pdf-files | Date | pdf-files | Date |
| Lecture 1 | 09/12/99 | Lecture 10 | 22/01/00 | Lecture 19 | 25/02/00 | |
| Lecture 2 | 10/12/99 | Lecture 11 | 28/01/00 | Lecture 20 | 26/02/00 | |
| Lecture 3 | 16/12/99 | Lecture 12 | 29/01/00 | Lecture 21 | 01/03/00 | |
| Lecture 4 | 17/12/99 | Lecture 13 | 04/02/00 | Lecture 22 | 02/03/00 | |
| Lecture 5 | 23/12/99 | Lecture 14 | 05/02/00 | Lecture 23 | 08/03/00 | |
| Lecture 6 | 24/12/99 | Lecture 15 | 11/02/00 | Lecture 24 | 09/03/00 | |
| Lecture 7 | 14/01/00 | Lecture 16 | 12/02/00 | Lecture 25 | ||
| Lecture 8 | 15/01/00 | Lecture 17 | 18/02/00 | Lecture 26 | ||
| Lecture 9 | 21/01/00 | Lecture 18 | 19/02/00 | Lecture 27 | ||
| Prepared talks: | |||
| 22/03/00 | Schwartz's Book | Chapter 29 | اقایان قمی و ابراهیمیان |
| 29/03-30/03/00 | Schwartz's Book | Chapter 31 | اقایان غلامی و اسماعیلی |
| 05/03-06/03/00 | Schwartz's Book | Chapter 32 | اقایان سیری و مرتضوی |
| Final Exam | Take Home | Upload on | Due to |
| Final Exam | 30/03/1400 | 20/04/00 |
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