SUBJECT
Title
Quantum chromodynamics
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
3
Recommended in
Semester 3
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
History of QCD. Lagrange-density, quantization, renormalization, renormalization group equations. Asymptotic freedom and asymptotic behaviour of Green functions. Electron-positron annihilation into hadrons, jet physics. Deeply inelastic scattering. QCD description of hard processes.
Readings
recommended readings:
- T. Muta: Foundations of Quantum Chromodynamics (Word Sci. 1987)
- W. Greiner, A. Schafer: Quantum Chromodynamics (Springer 1994)