TY - BOOK ID - 138065785 TI - Lectures on quantum field theory PY - 2008 SN - 9812832874 9789812832870 9789812832863 9812832866 9789812832856 9812832858 PB - Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Quantum field theory KW - Field theory (Physics) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138065785 AB - This book consists of the lectures for a two-semester course on quantum field theory, and as such is presented in a quite informal and personal manner. The course starts with relativistic one-particle systems, and develops the basics of quantum field theory with an analysis of the representations of the Poincaré group. Canonical quantization is carried out for scalar, fermion, Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories. Covariant quantization of gauge theories is also carried out with a detailed description of the BRST symmetry. The Higgs phenomenon and the standard model of electroweak interactio ER -