Nicola Cabibbo University of Rome, La Sapienza, and INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Luciano Maiani University of Rome, La Sapienza, and INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Omar Benhar INFN Sezione di Roma, and University of Rome, La Sapienza ; translated from the original Italian by Geoffrey Hall, Imperial College, London.
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Boca Raton, FL
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CRC Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(xvi, 304 pages) : illustrations
GENERAL NOTES
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This book was originally published in Italian in 2016, by Editori Riuniti University Press, under the original title: Introduzione alle Teorie di Gauge.;
CONTENTS NOTE
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The Feynman path integral -- Towards a field theory -- Equations of motion, symmetries and Ward's identity -- The electromagnetic field -- Fermion fields -- Scattering processes and the Smatrix -- Perturbative Green's functions in 4 -- Smatrix Feynman diagrams in 4 -- Quantum electrodynamics -- Renormalisation of QED -- Applications of QED -- Renormalisation group of QED -- Quantising a nonabelian theory -- The function in QCD -- Unitarity and ghosts -- Effective constants at high energy and ideas about grand unification -- Limits on the mass of the Higgs boson -- The weak muon anomaly -- Effective potential and naturalness.