An Introduction to Gauge Theories [Hardcover]

Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: The Feynman Path Integral. Chapter 3: Towards a Field Theory. Chapter 4: Equations of Motion, Symmetries and Ward's Identity.? Chapter 5: The Electromagnetic Field. Chapter 6: Fermion Fields. Chapter 7: Scattering Processes and the S-Matrix. Chapter 8: Perturbative Green's Functions in ??4. Chapter 9: S-Matrix Feynman Diagrams in ??4. Chapter 10: Quantum Electrodynamics. Chapter 11: Renormalisation of QED. Chapter 12: Applications of QED. Chapter 13: Renormalisation Group of QED. Chapter 14: Quantising a Non-Abelian Theory. Chapter 15: Unitarity and Ghosts. Chapter 16: The ? Function in QCD. Chapter 17: Lattice QCD. Chapter 18: The ?I = 1/2 Rule in Strange Particles Non-Leptonic Decays. Chapter 19: The Weak Muon Anomaly. Chapter 20: Effective Constants at High Energy and Ideas about Grand Unifications. Chapter 21: Limits on the Mass of the Higgs Boson. Chapter 22: Effective Potential and Naturalness. Appendix A: Transition Amplitude Calculation. Appendix B: Connected Diagrams. Appendix C: Lorentz Invariance and One-Particle States. Appendix D: Reduction Formulae. Appendix E: Integrals. Appendix F: Chiral Symmetry with Wilson Fermions: Basic Formulae. Appendix G: ?(?) and ?(gt) Functions. Bibliography. Index.

Written by world-leading experts in particle physics, this new book from Luciano Maiani and Omar Benhar, with contributions from the late Nicola Cabibbo, is based on Feynmans path integral formulation of quantum field theory.

Luciano Maiani?is emeritus professor of theoretical physics at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, and author of more than two hundred scientific publications on the theoretical physics of elementary particles. Together with S. Glashow and J. Iliopoulos, Maiani made the prediction of a new family of particles, those with charm, which form an essential part of the unified theory of the weak and electromagnetic forces. He has been presidelsÓ