PH2185: Advanced Quantum Field Theory
The module covers the following topics:
- Renormalization group (fixed points etc.)
- Effective action and effective potential
- Spontaneous symmetry breaking, Goldstone bosons
- Non-linear symmetry realizations, effective Goldstone Lagrangians
- Non-trivial classical field configurations (solitons, instantons etc.) and their quantization
- Anomalies (chiral, gauge, discrete, etc.)
- Basics of supersymmetry (N=1 supersymmetry algebra, Wess-Zumino model etc.)
- Spin-two fields; weak field quantisation of gravitation.
- Summer Semester
- TUM