Subject Code: PH7L007 Subject Name:Quantum Field Theory L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s):Nil
Review of Classical Field Theory, Lorentz transformations, relativistic wave equations; Lagrangian formalism for fields; symmetry transformations and Nöther’s theorem, Canonical quantization of the Scalar, Dirac and Maxwell fields. Wick's theorem. Feynman rules and Feynman diagrams, gauge invariance. Lowest order cross- sections and elementary treatment of self-energy and radiative corrections, divergence and renormalization.
Text Books/Reference Books: 
  1. Zee A., Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell,Princeton University Press.
  2. Srednicki Mark, Quantum Field Theory,Cambridge University Press.
  3. Peskin M. E. and Schroeder D.V., Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Addison-Wesley
  4. Mandl Franz and Shaw Graham, Quantum Field Theory,Wiley.
  5. Weinberg S., Quantum Field Theory, Vols. I, II, III, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.
  6. Henkel Malte, Conformal Invariance and Critical Phenomena (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics), Springer.
  7. Chaikin P. M., Lubensky T. C., Principles of Condensed Matter Physics, Cambridge University Press.
  8. Cheng Ta-Pei and Li Ling-Fong, Gauge Theory of elementary particle physics, Oxford University Press, USA.
  9. Halzen Francis and Martin Alan D., Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics,Wiley.
  10. Ramond Pierre, Field Theory: A Modern Primer (Frontiers in Physics Series, Vol 74),Westview Press.