Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. Particles and Fields I: Dichotomy -- 2. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Dynamics -- 3. Canonical Quantization -- 4. Particles and Fields II: Duality -- 5. Equations for Duality -- The Schrodingers Equation -- The KleinGordon Equation -- The Dirac Equation -- 6. Electromagnetic Field -- 7. Emulation of Light I: Matter Fields -- 8. Road Map for Field Quantization -- 9. Particles and Fields III: Particles as Quanta of Fields -- 10. Emulation of Light II: Interactions -- 11. Triumph and Wane -- 12. Emulation of Light III: Gauge Field -- 13. Quarks and Leptons -- 14. Non-Abelian Gauge Field Theories -- Epilogue: Leaps of Faith -- Appendix 1: The Natural Unit System -- Appendix 2: Notation -- Appendix 3: Velocity-Dependent Potential -- Appendix 4: Fourier Decomposition of Field -- Appendix 5: Evolution of Color Charges -- Index
Summary
This book presents the essential aspects of relativistic quantum fieldtheory, with minimal use of mathematics. It covers the development ofquantum field theory from the original quantization of electromagneticfield to the gauge field theory of interactions among quarks andleptons
