An Introduction to Gauge Theories (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: The Feynman Path Integral. Chapter 3: Towards a Field Theory. Chapter 4: Equations of Motion, Symmetries and Ward's Identity.? Chapter 5: The Electromagnetic Field. Chapter 6: Fermion Fields. Chapter 7: Scattering Processes and the S-Matrix. Chapter 8: Perturbative Green's Functions in λ?4. Chapter 9: S-Matrix Feynman Diagrams in λ?4. Chapter 10: Quantum Electrodynamics. Chapter 11: Renormalisation of QED. Chapter 12: Applications of QED. Chapter 13: Renormalisation Group of QED. Chapter 14: Quantising a Non-Abelian Theory. Chapter 15: Unitarity and Ghosts. Chapter 16: The β Function in QCD. Chapter 17: Lattice QCD. Chapter 18: The ΔI = 1/2 Rule in Strange Particles Non-Leptonic Decays. Chapter 19: The Weak Muon Anomaly. Chapter 20: Effective Constants at High Energy and Ideas about Grand Unifications. Chapter 21: Limits on the Mass of the Higgs Boson. Chapter 22: Effective Potential and Naturalness. Appendix A: Transition Amplitude Calculation. Appendix B: Connected Diagrams. Appendix C: Lorentz Invariance and One-Particle States. Appendix D: Reduction Formulae. Appendix E: Integrals. Appendix F: Chiral Symmetry with Wilson Fermions: Basic Formulae. Appendix G: β(λ) and β(gt) Functions. Bibliography. Index.