8.323 | Spring 2023 | Graduate

Relativistic Quantum Field Theory I

Lecture 13: Introducing the Dirac Equation

Review of calculation of scattering amplitudes from Feynman diagrams, derivation of the Dirac equation and its basic properties, gamma matrices and their properties, spinors, Dirac equation for massless spinors, representations of gamma matrices, concept of Lorentz covariance

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