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28th “Saalburg” Summer School
29 August – 9 September 2022 in Bayrischzell, Bayern
The Organizers:
- Laura Covi, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Arthur Hebecker, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- Olaf Lechtenfeld, Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Ivo Sachs, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Stefan Theisen, Albert-Einstein-Institut Potsdam
The school is generously supported by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation.
Lecture Program:
| Tomas Brauner (Stavanger) | Spontaneous symmetry breaking and Nambu-Goldstone bosons |
| Stefan Fredenhagen (Wien) | Conformal field theory |
| Marieke Postma (Nikhef, Amsterdam) | Phase transitions in the early universe |
| Christian Schubert (Morelia, Mexico) | String-inspired methods and the worldline formalism |
| Lorenzo Tancredi (TU München) | Modern methods for scattering amplitudes |
The instruction language is English.
Some lecture notes may appear later and will be made available here
Recommended Literature:
- Brauner:
https://inspirehep.net/literature/1752578
https://inspirehep.net/literature/1727582
https://inspirehep.net/literature/2048839
The lecture notes can be found here:
https://stavanger.instructure.com/courses/11588
- Fredenhagen:
EPFL Lectures on Conformal Field Theory in D>= 3 Dimensions by Slava Rychkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.05000
Introduction to conformal field theory : with applications to String theory by Ralph Blumenhagen and Erik Plauschinn
https://inspirehep.net/literature/839893
- Postma:
Mariano Quiros – Finite temperature field theory and phase transitions
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9901312
James Cline – Baryogenesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0609145
Sidney Coleman – The Fate of the False Vacuum. 1. Semiclassical Theory
https://inspirehep.net/literature/118681
Lecture notes:
www.nikhef.nl/~mpostma/PT.pdf
- Schubert:
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0101036
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9304249
F. Bastianelli and P. van Nieuwenhuizen, Path integrals and anomalies in curved space, CUP, 2006
H. Kleinert, Path Integrals in Quantum Mechanics, Polymer Physics, and Financial Markets,
5th edition, World Scientific 2009
- Tancredi:
J. Henn and J Plefka, Scattering Amplitudes in Gauge Theories
C. Duhr, Mathematical Aspects of Scattering Amplitudes, https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7538
Samuel Abreu et al, The SAGEX review on scattering Amplitudes, Chapter 3,
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13014
Stefan Weinzierl, Feynman Integrals, https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03593
Solutions to last exercises by Schubert and Tancredi:
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blackboard-2
blackboard-3
solution Tancredi
solution Schubert
