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Detailed Programme of the Week 11/20/2023 -- 11/25/2023:
-- Dirac and Electromagnetic Fields
LECT 41 -- Monday 11/20/2023 - 1h
Bonciani 15:00-16:00 (Amaldi)
Microcausality
and the Dirac
field.
Massless
fermions: Weyl
neutrinos.
LECT 42-43 -- Tuesday 11/21/2023 - 2h Bonciani
8:00-10:00 (Aula 7)
Electromagnetic
field.
Maxwell's
equations.
Scalar and
vector
potentials.
Gauge
invariance. Covariant
form of
Maxwell's
equations.
Lorentz
gauge.
Electromagnetic
tensor and
Electriomagnetic
field
equations in
covariant
form.
[Maggiore]
LECT
44-45 -- Friday 11/24/2023 - 2h Bonciani
8:00-10:00 (Amaldi)
Canonical
Quantization
of the field
A^mu.
Gauge fixing.
Gupta-Bleuler
quantization.
Plane wave
solutions.
Physical
states.
Temporal,
longitudinal
and transverse
modes.
[Maggiore]