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Title: Gauge Theories in Particle Physics: A Practical Introduction: From Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to Qed by Ian J. R. Aitchison, Anthony J. G. Hey ISBN: 0-7503-0864-8 Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If you are having trouble with QFT - BUY THIS BOOK!
Comment: This book (2nd edition) has 15 chapters . I have just finished chapter 4 entitled QFT and I am compeled to write this review! After a year of studying of QFT informally I can report that this is the way to introduce yourself to the topic. I've been through Mandl & Shaw, Peskin & Schoeder, Ryder, Weinberg and a few others and this is heads and tails the BEST intro available. In 42 pages, Aitchison & Hey make the transistion from classical to QM and from QM to QFT as gracefully as I can conceive. For example, the transition from the discrete Lagrangian to the field Lagrangian is very explicit. One benfit of this is that the dependence of L on partial of phi wrt x is clearly motivated leading to the manifestly relativistically invariant form of L. They explicitly develop physical intuition at every step of the way - for example, this is the only book that I have found that explicitly asks the question where is QM's wavefunction in the QFT formalism? Answer - The vacuum to one-particle matrix elements of the field operators. The transistion from free fields to interacting fields is far clearer than any other treatment I've seen. I also appreciated that the problems were used to basically fill in details left out of the text. I was able to 'practice' the various kinds of manipulations that are required.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazingly clear introduction to the subject
Comment: This book is the best book I've seen on the subject. The qualitative description of qunatum field theory in particular are amazingly lucid for the subject. The only possible flaw in the book is that the problems at the end of each chapter are both few in number and for the most part do not challenge the student at all; for the most part they are just rote calculations.
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Title: Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell by A. Zee ISBN: 0691010196 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 10 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory by Michael E. Peskin, Daniel V. Schroeder ISBN: 0201503972 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $77.00 |
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Title: Quantum Field Theory by Lowell S. Brown ISBN: 0521469465 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 21 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics by Martinus J. G. Veltman, M. G. Veltman ISBN: 981238149X Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Quarks and Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics by Francis Halzen, Alan D. Martin ISBN: 0471887412 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: January, 1984 List Price(USD): $92.95 |
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