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OverviewWhile there are many good books in particle physics, very seldom if ever a non-specialist comprehensive description of Quantum Field Theory has appeared. The intention of this short book is to offer a guided tour of that innermost topic of Theoretical Physics, in plain words and avoiding the mathematical apparatus, but still describing its various facets up to the research frontier, with the aim to give a glimpse of what the human mind has been capable of imagining for dealing with the behavior of Nature at the most fundamental level. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roberto IengoPublisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers Imprint: Morgan & Claypool Publishers Weight: 0.525kg ISBN: 9781643270500ISBN 10: 1643270508 Pages: 77 Publication Date: 30 July 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements Author biography 1. Interaction at a distance? Rather, the propagation of a field 2. The messengers of the interactions: the 'quanta' of the field 3. Matter fields, of an uncommon self-avoiding kind 4. Whatever is happening makes an action 5. The vacuum: the stage of the fields' play 6. The symmetric shape of the action 7. Everything fluctuates 8. The vacuum is not empty 9. What else? 10. QFT: what for? Appendix: Notes for further insightReviewsAuthor InformationRoberto Iengo is a professor at the PhD Graduate School SISSA (Trieste, Italy), now retired but still affiliated to the Theoretical Particle Physics group. He is author (also spelt as Jengo) of many scientific publications in various aspects of Quantum Field Theory and String Theory. He has taught for years a course in Quantum Field Theory for PhD students. He has also been Director of the SISSA Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Humanities and Science and of the Master in Science Communication. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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