An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory First Edition Michael E. Peskin

Part I: Feynman Diagrams and Quantum Electrodynamics

1 Invitation: Pair Production in e + e – Annihilation

2 The Klein-Gordon Field

3 The Dirac Field

4 Interacting Fields and Feynman Diagrams

5 Elementary Processes of Quantum Electrodynamics

6 Radiative Corrections: Introduction

7 Radiative Corrections: Some Formal Developments

Part II: Renormalization

8 Invitation: Ultraviolet Cutoffs and Critical Fluctuations

9 Functional Methods

10 Systematics of Renormalization

11 Renormalization and Symmetry

12 The Renormalization Group

13 Critical Exponents and Scalar Field Theory

Part III: Non-Abelian Gauge Theories

14 Invitation: The Parton Model of Hadron Structure

15 Non-Abelian Gauge Invariance

16 Quantization of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories

17 Quantum Chromodynamics

18 Operator Products and Effective Vertices

19 Perturbation Theory Anomalies

20 Gauge Theories with Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

21 Quantization of Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories

22 Quantum Field Theory at the Frontier