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Quantum Field Theory
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This book is a modern pedagogic introduction to the ideas and techniques of quantum field theory. After a brief overview of particle physics and a survey of relativistic wave equations and Lagrangian methods, the quantum theory of scalar and spinor fields, and then of gauge fields, is developed. The emphasis throughout is on functional methods, which have played a large part in modern field theory. The book concludes with a brief survey of 'topological' objects in field theory and, new to this edition, a chapter devoted to supersymmetry.
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“When ξ is positive, this equation is equivalent to the Proca equation [34-36] and m A ≡ ξ 1 / 2 can be interpreted as the rest mass of photons.”
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“This type of electromagnetic field equations can naturally arise from spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism in quantum field theory, where photons acquire a mass by eating massless Goldstone bosons.”
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“Although ξ can just be a fundamental constant in nature, an effective ξA a term can naturally arise from spontaneous symmetry breaking by the Higgs mechanism if the electromagnetic field is coupled to a complex scalar field [33, 34].”
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“When ξ is positive, this equation is equivalent to the Proca equation [34-36] and m A ≡ ξ 1 / 2 can be interpreted as the rest mass of photons.”
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“Hence, in this unitary gauge [33, 34], we have φ 2 = 0. That is, the massless Goldstone bosons go away by a gauge transformation.”
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- Authors
- Ryder, L. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Kent (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Ryder, Lewis H.
- ORCID
- Ryder, Lewis H.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1996-06-06
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Keywords
- quantum field theory, particle physics, relativistic wave equations, Lagrangian method, scalar field, spinor fields, gauge fields, functional methods, topological objects, supersymmetry
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