Quantum Field Theory

by Lewis H. Ryder

Book Overview

This book describes, as simply as is possible, the ideas and techniques of quantum field theory, on which is based our current understanding of subnuclear physics. In recent years this has advanced considerably with the discovery of charmed particles and the weak intermediate vector bosons predicted by gauge theories. After a brief survey of particle physics, the quantum theory of scalar and spinor fields, and then of gauge fields, is developed. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052133859X
• ISBN13: 9780521338592
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 455 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"