Readership: Primary: final-year undergraduates specialising in high-energy and condensed matter physics. Secondary: graduate students and researchers working in theoretical physics (especially particles, but also condensed matter, statistical mechanics, cosmology and astrophysics) or experimental particle physics.
Michele Maggiore, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
"The author gives a nice conceptual discussion of divergences in loop amplitudes, the need to renormalize, and how both renormalization group...he manages to convery the main ideas without getting lost in technical details." - Physics Today
"All in all, Maggiore's approach is precisely the one that should be taken in an undergraduate course: Introduce the "big" ideas and leave the computational and thornier technical details for subsequent courses." - Physics Today
"A Modern Introduction to Quantum Field Theory provides useful information. Books in the Oxford Master Series in Statistical, Computational and Theoretical Physics are aimed at final-year undergraduate and begining postgraduate students, providing straightforward introduction to key topics in physics. This book satifies these goals very well." - The Times Higher, December 2005.
1: Introduction 2: Lorentz and Poincaré symmetries in quantum field theory 3: Classical field theory 4: Quantization of free fields 5: Perturbation theory and Feynman diagrams 6: Cross sections and decay rates 7: Quantum electrodynamics 8: The low-energy limit of the electroweak theory 9: Path integral quantization 10: Non-Abelian gauge theories 11: Spontaneous symmetry breaking
