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Detailed Programme of the Week 12/12/2022 -- 12/16/2022:

-- Interactions


LECT 52-53 -- Tuesday 12/13/2022 -
2h Bonciani    14:00-16:00  (Aula7)

Canonical Quantization of the field A^mu. Gauge fixing. Gupta-Bleuler quantization. Plane wave solutions. Physical states. Temporal, longitudinal and transverse modes.  [Maggiore]


LECT 54 -- Wednesday 12/14/202 - 1h Bonciani    16:00-17:00  (Aula4)

Plane wave solutions. Physical states. Temporal, longitudinal and transverse modes. Conditions fulfilled by the physical states. Energy and momentum densities and contribution of the physical states. The Photon. [Maggiore]


LECT 55-56 -- Thursday 12/15/202 - 2h Bonciani    10:00-12:00  (Aula1, CUO28-E01PTEL002)

Non-homogeneous differential equations and Green's function. The case of the scalar field. Fourier transform and integration in C. Closed paths. Open paths. Retarded and Advanced Green's functions. The Feynman propagator for the scalar field. [Maiani-Benhar]
 

LECT 57-58 -- Thursday 12/15/202 -
2h Bonciani    14:00-16:00  (Aula7)

 
Covariant form of the propagator. Propagator as the vacuum expectation value of T-ordered product of two fields. Feynman's propagator for the spinor field and for the electromagnetic field. Electromagnetic interaction. Interacting Lagrangian density. Derivative and non-derivative interactions.


LECT 59 -- Friday 12/16/2022 - 1h Bonciani    8:00-9:00  (Aula7)

Scattering matrix. Interaction representation. Time-dependent perturbation theory and Dyson's formula. 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]