quantum field theory I

		Study programme 2020-2021	Français
		quantum field theory I
		Learning Activity

Code	Lecturer(s)	Associate Lecturer(s)	Subsitute Lecturer(s) et other(s)	Establishment
S-PHYS-049	BOULANGER Nicolas			UMONS

Language of instruction	Language of assessment	HT(*)	HTPE(*)	HTPS(*)	HR(*)	HD(*)	Term
Français	Français	30	20	0	0	0	Q1

Organisational online arrangements for the end of Q3 2020-2021 assessments (Covid-19)
Oral exam (questions and answers, presentation of individual or group work, comment and argument about a written text...)
Description of the modifications to the Q3 2020-2021 assessment procedures (Covid-19)
Oral exam in the premises of the University. Questions will be asked, to be anserwed on the blackboard.

Organisational arrangements for the end of Q1 2020-2021 assessments (Covid-19) online or face-to-face (according to assessment schedule)

Oral exam (questions and answers, presentation of individual or group work, comment and argument about a written text...)

Description of the modifications to the Q1 2020-2021 online assessment procedures (Covid-19) online or face-to-face (according to assessment schedule)

Oral exam in the premises of the University. Questions will be asked, to be anserwed on the blackboard and orally.

Content of Learning Activity

Lorentz and Poincaré groups. Classification of the unitary irreducible representations of the Poincaré group. Variational principles in Relativistic Field Theory: Klein-Gordon, Dirac, Maxwell, Fierz-Pauli and Fronsdal field equations. Gauge invariances and rigid symmetries. Relativistic Hydrogen atom. Noether theorem in Field Theory. Canonical quantization of free fields of spin less than two. Method of Dirac for constained systems. Propagators, Wick theorem. Time-dependent perturbation theory for the scattering S matrix. Reduction formula. Feynmann rules for quantum electrodynamics.

Required Learning Resources/Tools

Lectures given at the blackboard.

Recommended Learning Resources/Tools

None