Theoretical Elementary Particle Physics

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Lecture notes

I. Foundations

Path integral
Abelian and non-abelian gauge theories
Quantization of QCD: unitarity argument
Faddeev-Popov quantization
Path integral quantization of abelian and non-abelian gauge theories
Loop diagrams and renormalization
1-loop diagrams in QCD; Gluon selfenergy
Running coupling constant and asymptotic freedom of QCD

II. Applications

QCD and the Parton model: deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering
Scaling violations in DIS
Polarised DIS and spin of nucleon
Slides partonic structure of nucleons
Anomalies in Quantum Field Theory
Standard Model of electroweak interactions
Higgs Mechanism
Higgs physics

Exercises

One-loop diagrams in QCD