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  Advanced Topics:Introduction to perturbative QCD, 6936

Misak Sargsian

M,W 6:25-7:40pm, DM 163

Office Hours M,W - 3:30-4:30pm, CP224, sargsian@fiu.edu, 305-348-3954



Lecture1  -
Quantum Electrodynamics, Local Gauge Invariance,
                  Equations of Motion, Quantization of the field

Lecture2  - S-matrix, Perturbation Theory, Feynman Amplitude
                   Feynman Rules.
Propagators and Green Functions: Fermions & Photons

Lecture3 - Lorentz Gauge, Noninteracting Longitudinal Photons,
                  Feynman  and Landau Gauges, Axial Gauges, Proper Planar Gauges,
                  Coulomb, Radiation and Light-Cone Gauges

Lecture4 - QED example: electron-muon scattering.   
 

QCD Lagrangian & Gauge Fixing in QCD:


Lecture 5 - Properties of SU(N) transformation
Lecture 6 - Building Yang-Mills Lagrangian from SU(N) Local Gauge Invariance
Lecture6suppl - Proving the gauge invariance of the Gluonic Field

Lecture7 - Equation of Motion in QCD, Color-Current and Color Charge Conservation
- Lorentz Gauge, Interacting Longitudinal Gluons, Ghost Fields
 

- Axial Gauge and Non-Ghost QCD



Lecture 8 - Feynman rules in QCD

Lecture 9 - Examples in pQCD calculation

Lecture 10 - Deep Inelastic Scattering, Structure Functions,
     
Lecture 11 - Bjorken Scaling, partonic distributions

Lecture 12 - Partonic Distribution Function of Nucleons

Lecture 13 - QCD Evolution Equations I

Lecture 14 - QCD Evolution Equations II (Calculation of splitting functions)

Lecture 15 - QCD Evolution Equations III (Calculation of splitting functions)  

Lecture 16 - QCD Evolution Equations IV (Sum rules)

Lecture 17 - QCD Evolution Equations V (Master equation)

Lecture N- Light Cone Perturbation Theory

 ?   Information.

Suggested Literature

1."Foundations of pQCD"
  John Collins
2."Exclusive Processes in pQCD"
  S. Brodsky & P. Lepage
3."Gauge Field Theories"
 K. Ter-Martirosyan & M. Voloshin
4."QCD at  High Energies"
Yu. Kovchegov & E. Levin

 

One  piece of the Final Grade:

Homeworks (100%)

 

Homework Assignments:

HW1.pdf ( due   Sep. 6)

HW2.pdf (due  Sep 13 )

HW3.pdf (due  Oct 9  )

HW4.pdf (due  Oct 16  )

HW5.pdf (due  Oct 23 )

HW6.pdf (due   Oct 30 )

HW7.pdf (due  Nov 8 )

HW8.pdf (due  Nov 15 )

HW9.pdf (due  Nov 22 )

HW10.pdf (due  Nov 29 )

HW11.pdf (due   Dec 6)

HW12.pdf (due   Dec 13)

HW13.pdf (due   Dec 16)

 Grades

 

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