Lecture 1. Yang-Mills theory -- Lecture 2. Yang-Mills theories (continued) -- Lecture 3. Path integral quantization -- Lecture 4. Path integral in scalar QFT -- Lecture 5. Complex scalar field and finite temperature -- Lecture 6. Calculus of Grassmann numbers and spinor fields -- Lecture 7. Fermion fields in path integrals -- Lecture 8. Gauge fields in path integral: the simplest example of QED -- Lecture 9. Non-abelian gauge fields in path integrals -- Lecture 10. How to calculate charge renormalization -- Lecture 11. Yang-Mills coupling (continued) -- Lecture 12. What if vacuum is not unique -- Lecture 13. Condensed matter week -- Lecture 14. Renormalization group; RG flow -- Lecture 15. Phases of Yang-Mills theories -- Lecture 16. Anomalous dimensions. Quark mass in QCD -- Lecture 17. More on XSB. Effective Lagrangians -- Lecture 18. Quantum anomalies -- Lecture 19. Quantum anomalies (continued) -- Lecture 20. "External" anomalies: implications -- Lecture 21. Divergence of perturbation theory at high orders -- Lecture 22. Degenerate (pre)vacua and instantons in QM.
Summary:
"Field Theory II begins with the path integral formulation of quantum field theory. Perturbation theory is generalized beyond tree level, to include radiative corrections (loops). The renormalization procedure and Wilsonean renormalization group are discussed, asymptotic freedom of non-Abelian gauge theories derived, and some applications in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) considered, with a brief digression into the Standard Model (SM). Sample higher order corrections are worked out. The SM case requires a study of the spontaneous breaking of the gauge symmetry, a phenomenon which would be more appropriate to call "Higgsing of the gauge bosons""-- Provided by publisher.
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