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Detailed Programme of the Week 10/30/2023 -- 11/3/2023:

-- Dirac Field


LECT 26 -- Monday 10/30/2023 -
1h Bonciani    15:00-16:00   (Amaldi) 

Unitarity in gamma_0 metric and Dirac adjoint.


LECT 27-28 -- Tuesday 10/31/2023 - 2h Bonciani    8:00-10:00   (Amaldi) 

Probability density. Adjoint equation. How a spinor transforms under a boost. Lagrangian density and conjugated momenta. Energy momentum tensor. Energy density. Angular Momentum. Spin. Internal transformations and invariance of Dirac's equation under U(1) global phase transformations. Charge.


LECT 29-30 -- Friday 11/3/2023 - 2h Bonciani    8:00-10:00  (Amaldi)

gamma_5.  Bilinear covariants and their behaviour under Lorentz transformations. Algebra of gamma matrices. Traces of gamma matrices.
Plane wave solutions of Dirac's equation.
Spinors. Negative energy solutions.