Description
Book SynopsisThis present edition of the book follows the generally pedagogic style of Quantum Mechanics. The scope ranges from relativistic quantum mechanics to an introduction to quantum field theory with quantum electrodynamics as the basic example and ends with an exposition of important issues related to the standard model. The book presents the subject in basic and easy-to-grasp notions which will enhance the purpose of this book as a useful textbook in the area of relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics.
Table of ContentsPreface; Foreword; Relativistic Quantum Mechanics: The Language; The Dirac Theory for Free Electrons; γμ -Matrices; Helicity; Charge Conjugation; Transformations of the Dirac Equation; The Dirac Electron in an Electromagnetic Field; Introduction to Quantum Field Theory: Classical Fields; Many-Body Systems; Quantization of Free Fields; Quantum Electrodynamics I: S-Matrix Elements; Quantum Electrodynamics II: Renormalization; The Standard Model: Symmetries, Transformations, and Invariants; Quantum Chromodynamics; The Glashow-Salam-Weinberg Electroweak Theory; Experimental Tests: The Standard Model of the 20th Century; The Standard Model; Neutrinos in the Cosmos; Subject Index; Name Index;
