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Detailed Programme of the Week 12/11/2023 -- 12/15/2023:

-- Interactions

LECT 52 -- Monday 12/11/2023 - 1h Bonciani    15:00-16:00   (Amaldi)

Electromagnetic interactions. Interacting Lagrangian density. Derivative and non-derivative interactions.

LECT 53-54 -- Tuesday 12/12/2023 - 2h Bonciani    8:00-10:00 (Amaldi)

The Gauge Principle. Gauge theories: QED (and QCD). Canonical quantization of the interacting Lagrangian.

LECT 55-56 -- Friday 12/15/2023 - 2h Bonciani    8:00-10:00 (Amaldi)

Scattering matrix. Interaction representation. Time-dependent perturbation theory and Dyson's formula. [Mandl-Shaw] [Itzykson-Zuber]

LECT 57-58 -- Friday 12/22/2023 - 2h Bonciani    17:00-19:00 (Cabibbo - Edificio Fermi)

Unitarity and Lorentz invariance of the scattering matrix. Properties of the time-ordered exponential. Wick's theorem. Time ordered product of 2, 3, 4 fields. Bosonic and fermionic fields. [Mandl-Shaw] [Itzykson-Zuber]