Video URL
https://pirsa.org/22120015QFT2 - Quantum Electrodynamics - Afternoon Lecture
Cliff Burgess McMaster University
Talk numberPIRSA:22120015
Source RepositoryPIRSA
Talk Type
Course
Abstract
This course uses quantum electrodynamics (QED) as a vehicle for covering several more advanced topics within quantum field theory, and so is aimed at graduate students that already have had an introductory course on quantum field theory. Among the topics hoped to be covered are: gauge invariance for massless spin-1 particles from special relativity and quantum mechanics; Ward identities; photon scattering and loops; UV and IR divergences and why they are handled differently; effective theories and the renormalization group; anomalies.