Gauge field theories / Stefan Pokorski.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-604) and index.

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Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; 0 Introduction; 1 Classical fields, symmetries and their breaking; 2 Path integral formulation of quantum field theory; 3 Feynman rules for Yang ... Mills theories; 4 Introduction to the theory of renormalization; 5 Quantum electrodynamics; 6 Renormalization group; 7 Scale invariance and operator product expansion; 8 Quantum chromodynamics; 9 Chiral symmetry; spontaneous symmetry breaking; 10 Spontaneous and explicit global symmetry breaking; 11 Higgs mechanism in gauge theories.

12 Standard electroweak theory13 Chiral anomalies; 14 Effective lagrangians; 15 Introduction to supersymmetry; Appendix A Spinors and their properties; Appendix B Feynman rules for QED and QCD and Feynman integrals; Appendix C Feynman rules for the Standard Model; Appendix D One-loop Feynman integrals; Appendix E Elements of group theory; References; Index.

An expanded and up-dated text examining gauge theories and their symmetries with an emphasis on their physical and technical aspects. New chapters give a systematic introduction to classical field theories and the electroweak theory. Suitable for graduate courses in physics, the only prerequisite being some grounding in quantum field theory.

English.

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