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INTRODUCTORY SURVEY, ELECTROMAGNETISM AS A GAUGE THEORY, AND RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS; The Particles and Forces of in the Standard Model; Electromagnetism as a Gauge Theory; Relativistic Quantum Mechanics; Lorentz Transformations and Discrete Symmetries INTRODUCTION TO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; Quantum Field Theory I: The Free Scalar Field; Quantum Field Theory II: Interacting Scalar Fields; Quantum Field Theory III: Complex Scalar Fields, Dirac and Maxwell Fields; Introduction of Electromagnetic Interactions TREE-LEVEL APPLICATIONS IN QED; Elementary Processes in Scalar and Spinor Electrodynamics; Deep Inelastic Electron-Nucleon Scattering and the Parton Model LOOPS AND RENORMALIZATION; Loops and Renormalization I: The ABC Theory; Loops and Renormalization II: QED APPENDIX A: Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics; APPENDIX B: Natural Units; APPENDIX C: Maxwell's Equations: Choice of Units; APPENDIX D: Special Relativity: Invariance and Covariance; APPENDIX E: Dirac Delta-Function; APPENDIX F: Contour Integration; APPENDIX G: Green Functions; APPENDIX H: Elements of Non-Relativistic Scattering Theory; APPENDIX I: The Schrödinger and Heisenberg Pictures; APPENDIX J: Dirac Algebra and Trace Identities; APPENDIX K: Example of a Cross Section Calculation; APPENDIX L: Feynman Rules for Tree Graphs in QED References Index Problems appear at the end of each chapter.

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