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Detailed Programme of the Week 10/23/2023 -- 10/27/2023:

-- Canonical Quantization of the KG field


LECT 21 -- Monday 10/23/2023 -
1h Bonciani    15:00-16:00   (Amaldi) 

Creation and annihilation operators. Canonical quatization and commutation relations for the fields. Commutation relations for the creation and annihilation operators. Hamiltonian and Normal ordering. [L. Maiani and O. Benhar, "Relativistic Quantum Mechanics - An Introduction to Relativistic Quantum Fields"] [M. Maggiore, "Introduction to Quantum Field Theory"]


LECT 22-23 -- Tuesday 10/24/2023 - 2h Bonciani    8:00-10:00   (Amaldi) 
 

Momentum in terms of creation and annihilation operators. Fock space. One-particle state. Two-particle state and Bose symmetry. Charged scalar field. Energy, momentum and charge. Fock space. Particles and anti-particles.


LECT 24-25 -- Friday 10/27/2023 - 2h Bonciani    8:00-10:00  (Amaldi)

Locality and Causality in Quantum Field Theory. Dirac equation. Properties of alpha and beta matrices. Gamma matrices. Covariance of Dirac's equation.