8.323 | Spring 2023 | Graduate

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I

Lecture 7: Interacting Theories and S-Matrix

Introducing interactions, scattering processes as probes of interactions,  concept of S-matrix and its definition, scattering amplitude, properties of S-matrix, LSZ theorem which relates scattering amplitudes to correlation functions

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