| Date |
Tuesday |
Thursday |
| Sept. 1, 3 |
1,2 harmonic
oscillator |
1,2 quantum
scalar field |
| Sept. 8, 10 |
1,2,5 emission
& absorption of photons, relativity, cross sections |
5 cross
sections |
| Sept. 15, 17 |
6 S-matrix,
LSZ reduction |
6 Feynman
propagator |
| Sept. 22, 24 |
7 Feynman
rules |
7 |
| Sept. 29, Oct. 1 |
7 momentum space
Feynman rules |
7 unitary irreps of
Poincare; massive spin-1 field |
| Oct. 6, 8 |
8 massless spin-1
field |
10 spinors |
| Oct. 13, 15 |
10 spinors |
10 spinors |
| Oct. 20, 22 |
11 spinors |
11,12 spinors,
quantization |
| Oct. 27, 29 |
12 quantizing spinors |
13 pos. energy, QED
Feyn. rules |
| Nov. 3, 5 |
13 QED |
13 QED |
| Nov. 10, 12 |
13 QED, Lamb shift
expt. |
Lamb shift estimate,
and Bethe's calculation; 15.4 (just started) |
| Nov. 17, 19 |
15.4, 16 intro, 16.2.2,
Feynman parameters, dimensional regularization |
16.3 |
| Nov. 24, 26 |
16,3, 17.1 |
|
| Dec. 1, 3 |
19.1-3, 23.2, 23.5.1 |
21, 22.2 |
| Dec. 8, 10 |
(21), 22.3 | 22.3, 22.4, 23.6 |