Neutrino Oscillations

quantum field theory (QFT)

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<p>describe the basic interactions of Nature</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a good knowledge of quantum mechanics, including rudiments of the Dirac equation, as well as elements of the Klein-Gordon equation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>it offers something new in its approach to the subject and covers many topics not covered in other books</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quantum Theory: A Wide Spectrum (2006)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>path-integral approach</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>quantum dynamical (action) principle</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are related by functional Fourier transforms and delta functionals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An appropriate description of physical processes at sufficiently high energies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It arises in QFT field independent of any perturbation theory</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The variation of the action, within the boundaries of transformation functions, is set equal to zero which eventually leads to the Euler-Lagrange equations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>$\alpha ' = \frac{1}{128}$</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Renormalization</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>1983</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Edouard B. Manoukian</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The book 'Renormalization'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide additional material and dependent developments in the text</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Every serious student</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Right at the end of the book</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quantum Electrodynamics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quantum Chromodynamics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Abelian gauge theories (QED, scalar boson electrodynamics) and the derivations of two celebrated results of QED: the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron and the Lamb shift.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Non-abelian gauge theories (electroweak, QCD, Grand unification) including topics such as asymptotic freedom, deep inelastic scattering, QCD jets, parton splittings, neutrino oscillations, the 'seesaw mechanism' and neutrino masses, Schwinger-line integrals, Wilson loops, lattices, and quark confinement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The concept of a quantum field, the Poincaré algebra, and particle states. It also covers the stationary action principle, the solutions of QFT via the quantum dynamical principle, the CPT symmetry theorem, and the Spin &amp; Statistics connection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The development of QFT since its birth in 1926, in abelian and non-abelian gauge theories. It also includes aspects of quantum gravity, supersymmetry, string theory, and the theory of renormalization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quantum field theory methods of spin 1/2 and the study of anomalies in the quantum world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of symmetry transformations in the quantum world, as well as intricacies of functional differentiation and functional integration that are important in field theory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To understand elementary particle interactions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A theory of strong and electroweak interactions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To explore extensions of the standard model and make predictions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Large number of arbitrary parameters.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are closely related.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symmetries that hold globally.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symmetries that hold locally.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By introducing local gauge invariance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To induce spontaneous breakdown of global gauge invariance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Local gauge invariance avoids unwanted particles and allows some or all of the gauge particles to acquire mass.</p> Signup and view all the answers