TY  - BOOK
AU  - Iengo,R.
ED  - Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
ED  - Institute of Physics, IOP - EBA (Great Britain),
TI  - Quantum field theory: an arcane setting for explaining the world 
T2  - [IOP release 5]
SN  - 9781643270531
AV  - QC174.45 .I467 2018eb
U1  - 530.14/3 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA)
PB  - Morgan & Claypool Publishers
KW  - Quantum field theory
KW  - Physics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - SCIENCE / Physics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - "Version: 20180701"--Title page verso; "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; 1. Interaction at a distance? Rather, the propagation of a field -- 1.1. Static fields perhaps well known -- 1.2. Time dependent fields perhaps less well known -- 1.3. Bibliography; 2. The messengers of the interactions : the 'quanta' of the field -- 2.1. The revenge of the integers -- 2.2. Quanta as particles -- 2.3. Quanta as waves -- 2.4. Two other, less familiar, fundamental fields and their quanta -- 2.5. Weak interact; 3. Matter fields, of an uncommon self-avoiding kind -- 3.1. The need for new unusual anti-commuting numbers -- 3.2. Matter quanta. An interlude -- 3.3. Matter fields -- 3.4. Supersymmetry -- 3.5. The love affair with anticommuting numbers -- 3.6; 4. Whatever is happening makes an action -- 4.1. The action and the motion -- 4.2. The action of the fields -- 4.3. Action in quantum field theory -- 4.4. Time is real but it helps treating it as imaginary -- 4.5. Bibliography; 5. The vacuum : the stage of the fields' play -- 5.1. A metaphysical vacuum? -- 5.2. Feynman graphs -- 5.3. The vacuum has a physical content, to be seen -- 5.4. Bibliography; 6. The symmetric shape of the action -- 6.1. Are there other fields in nature? -- 6.2. Symmetry and invariance : the gauge invariance -- 6.3. Other kinds of gauge invariance -- 6.4. Why gauge invariance -- 6.5. The mass looks forbidden by gauge; 7. Everything fluctuates -- 7.1. Violating energy conservation? -- 7.2. Picturing by Feynman graphs -- 7.3. Sometimes the quantum corrections are a bit too large, actually infinite -- 7.4. The coupling constant runs like Achilles' tortoise -- 7; 8. The vacuum is not empty -- 8.1. The Higgs field fills the vacuum -- 8.2. The fields are never at rest -- 8.3. Quanta are created and annihilated in the vacuum -- 8.4. (Exact) supersymmetry implies zero vacuum energy -- 8.5. The vacuum energy; 9. What else? -- 9.1. A theory of never free quarks? -- 9.2. QFT in a gravitationally curved spacetime -- 9.3. Gravity can describe QFT without gravity -- 9.4. Other topics that are not covered -- 9.5. Bibliography; 10. QFT : what for? -- 10.1. The answer is : knowledge -- 10.2. A layer of effective theories -- 10.3. QFT in the Universe -- 10.4. The main web-reference for a farewell -- Appendix. Notes for further insight; Also available in print
N2  - While there are many good books in particle physics, very seldom if ever has a non-specialist comprehensive description of quantum field theory appeared. The intention of this short book is to offer a guided tour of that innermost topic of theor
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