Final exam 5.5 - 12.5. Return on Thursday, 12.5 by 12.00 to Kari Rummukainen's mail box (C-wing, 3rd floor)

Lecturer: Kari Rummukainen, C 323
Lectures: Thursday 12-14, Friday 12-14 Physicum A315 (HIP seminar room)
Teaching assistant: Ville Keränen
Excercise sessions: Friday 10-12 Physicum D116 (starts on week 5)

Course description: This is an "advanced quantum field theory" course, where the focus is on perturbative calculations in gauge field theories. Topics include perturbative loop expansion, regularization and renormalization, gauge fixing and Faddeev-Popov ghosts and asymptotic freedom. In addtion of the conventional continuum formalism, lattice field theory formalism is also introduced. The main tool is the path integral.

Prerequisites are Quantum Mechanics I \& II. Other Quantum Field Theory courses are not required, but are naturally helpful.

Contents:
Canonical quantization, propagators,

Lecture notes

Homework:
Homework 1 (return by Thursday 3.2. 12.00 to Ville Keränen's mail box (A-wing, 3rd floor)
Homework 2 (return by Thursday 10.2. 12.00 to Ville Keränen's mail box (A-wing, 3rd floor)
Homework 3 (return by Thursday 17.2. 12.00
Homework 4 (return by Thursday 24.2. 12.00
Homework 5 (return by Thursday 3.3. 12.00
Homework 6 (return by Thursday 17.3. 12.00
Homework 7 (return by Thursday 24.3. 12.00
Homework 8 (return by Thursday 31.3. 12.00
Homework 9 (return by Thursday 7.4. 12.00
Homework 10 (return by Thursday 14.4. 12.00
Homework 11 (return by Thursday 28.4. 12.00

Textbooks:
Peskin, Schroeder: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory - this is what we mostly follow
Bailin, Love: Introduction to Gauge Field Theory - more compact, uses path integrals only