内容简介
thisbookprovidesaneasilyaccessibleintroductiontoquantumfieldtheoryviafeynmanrulesandcalculationsinparticlephysics.theaimistomakeclearwhatthephysicalfoundationsofpresentdayfieldtheoryare,toclarifythephysicalcontentoffeynmanrules,andtooutlinetheirdomainofapplicability.thebookbeginswithabriefreviewofsomeaspectsofeinsteinstheoryofrelativitythatareofparticularimportanceforfieldtheory,beforegoingontoconsidertherelativisticquantummechan-icsoffreeparticles,interactingfields,andparticleswithspin.thetechniqueslearntinthesechaptersarethendemonstratedinexamplesthatmightbeencounteredinrealacceleratorphysics.furtherchapterscontaindiscussionsonrenormalization,massiveandmasslessvectorfieldsandunitarity.afinalchapterpresentsconcludingargumentsconcerningquantumelectrodynamics.thebookincludesvaluableappendicesthatreviewsomeessentialmathematics,includingcomplexspaces,matrices,thecbhequa-tion,tracesanddimensionalregularization.anappendixcontain-ingacomprehensivesummaryoftherulesandconventionsusedisfollowedbyanappendixspecifyingthefulllangranianofthestandardmodelandthecorrespondingfeynmanrules.tomakethebookusefulforawideaudienceafinalappendixprovidesadiscussiononthemetricused,andaneasy-to-usedictionarycon-nectingequationswrittenwithadifferentmetric.writtenasatextbook,manydiagramsandexamplesareincluded.thisbookwillbeusedbybeginninggraduatestudentstakingcoursesinparticlephysicsorquantumfieldtheory,aswellasbyresearchersasasourceandreferencebookonfeynmandiagramsandrules.