Gauge Theory in Particle Physics. Volume 1: From Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to QED
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Author(s): I. Aitchison and A. Hey
Publisher: Institute of Physics
ISBN: 0750308648
Format: softback
406pp
Price: £29.99, $39.99
Review Date: 14 October 2002
Review: This graduate student textbook (now in two volumes) has been updated to reflect the changes over the last ten years in the content of university courses, and in particle physics research. The first Part introduces electromagnetism as a gauge theory, and relativistic quantum mechanics. The second Part then covers quantum field theory and looks at free and interacting scalar fields as well as complex scalar fields, Dirac and Maxwell fields. It also introduces electromagnetic interactions. Part 3 gives three-level applications in quantum electrodynamics (QED);the last Part discusses loops and renormalization.