Practical details about the course can be found in this note.
| Week | Section | Contents, roughly | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1-7, 9.1 | Lightning review of QFT 1, path integrals for quantum mechanics | ||
| 2 | 9.1, 9.2 | Path integrals | ||
| 3 | 9, 10.1, 10.2 | Path integrals & renormalization | ||
| 4 | 10.2, 12.1 | Renormalization: details, Wilson's point of view | ||
| 5 | 12.2 - 12.3 | Renormalization: Callan-Symanzik, evolution of coupling constants | ||
| 6 | 15.1-15.2 | Non-Abelian gauge theory | ||
| 7 | 16.1-16.4 | Non-Abelian gauge theory: quantization | ||
| 8 | 16.5-16.6 | Non-Abelian gauge theory: beta function & background field formalism | ||
| 9 | 17, 11.1 | Introduction to QCD, spontaneous symmetry breaking | ||
| 10 | 11.1, 20.1 / 20.2 | Higgs mechanism, electroweak sector of the standard model | ||
| 10 | 20.2 / 20.3 | the standard model |