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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.