P622 Quantum Field Theory
Department of Physics, Indiana University


Taught by: Steven Gottlieb
Meets: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:20 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. in Swain West 220

This course is the second semester of a two semester sequence in Quantum Field Theory. You may examine the syllabus for the course or the syllabus for the first semester by clicking on either hyperlink.

About the Textbook

The textbook An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by M. E. Peskin and D. V. Schroeder has just recently been published. Corrections to the text may be found here .


Material Relating to Lectures Will Appear Here

You probably got the code and documentation for FeynCalc last semester. In case you didn't, you can find a PostScript version of the Users Guide for FeynCalc here. A tar (tape archive) file with the code for FeynCalc version 1.44 can be fetched by clicking here. This tar file can be used on a UNIX system where it can be unpacked with the command "tar -xvf FeynCalc1.44.tar". This will create a subdirectory FeynCalc with all the code necessary for FeynCalc. See me if you need additional help.

Here is a file containing FeynCalc commands to calculate the traces for pair creation.
Here is the result of loading this file into Mathematica.

Here is a file containing FeynCalc commands to calculate the numerator for the vertex correction that appears near the top of page 192. result of loading this file into Mathematica. Note that the file name has been changed from that used in class.


Homework Assignments Will Appear Below

Homework 7 (posted January 23; due January 30)

Homework assignments from Spring 1997
Homework 7 (posted January 14)
Homework 8 (posted February 1; due February 13)
Homework 9 (handed out in class; due March 6)
Homework 10 (handed out in class; due April 22)
Homework 11 (handed out in class; due May 6)


Homework assignments from Spring 1996

Homework 7 (posted January 16)
Homework 8 (posted February 5)
Homework 9 (posted February 22)
Homework 10 (posted March 24)
Homework 11 (posted April 22)


Homework assignments from Spring 1995

Feel free to look at the problems assigned even earlier. There will be many changes because we are going at a faster pace, but you will get a good idea of where the course is headed near the beginning of this semester by looking at these assignments.

Homework 7
Results of SPIRES searches of literature for Homework 7, Problem 4
an author and title search
a keyword search .
Homework 8
Homework 9
Homework 10
Homework 11 (emailed April 2)