Index

• KG equation, 1.1
• anti-commutator, 13
• bare field, 5.3.4
• Casimir trick, 3.3
• Casmir operators, 5.1
• centre-of-mass frame, 3.5
• chirality, six tensors
• Clifford algebra, 1.2.1
• colour, 4.1
• completeness relation, 2.3
• Compton scattering, 4, 5.3
• confinement, • ‣ 6.1
• contravariant, 1.1
• covariant, 1.1
• cross section, 3.4, 6.1
• crossing symmetry, 4
• decay width, 3.4
• Dirac equation, 1.2.1
• Dirac fields, 1
• Dirac sea, 1.2.2
• Dirac spinor, 1.2.1
• energy-momentum relation, 1.1
• Euler-Lagrange equations, one pseudo-scalar
• fermions, 1.2.1
• Feynman prescription, 3.2
• Feynman rules, $\xi=\infty$, 155
• field
  • scalar, 1, 1.1, 1.1
• flavour, 3.2
  • active quark, 6.1
  • quark, 3.2, 4
• flux factor, 3.5, 3
• gauge
  • $R_{\xi}$, 3.1
  • axial, 5.3.2
  • Coulomb, 3.1
  • covariant derivative, 2.4, 4.4, 155
  • Feynman, 3.1, $\xi=1$, 5.3.1, 5.3.1
  • fields, 1, high-energy
  • fixing, 3.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.3, 5.3.3
  • invariance, 3.1
  • light-cone, 5.3.3
  • Lorenz, 3.1, 3.1
  • parameter, 3.1
  • physical, 5.3.1, 5.3.2
  • symmetry, 5.1
  • transformation, four pseudo-vectors, 155
  • unitary, 3.1
• Gell-Mann matrices, • ‣ 5.1
• generator, • ‣ 5.1, 5.1
• ghost fields, 5.3.1
• Ghosts, 5.3.2
• gluon, 4.3
• Hamiltonian operator, 1.1
• helicity operator, 2.2
• Higgs boson field, 1
• hole, 1
• Jacobi identity, 5.2
• Landau pole, 6.1
• local $U(1)$ symmetry, four pseudo-vectors, 6.1
• logarithm
  • collinear, 4.1
• loop momentum, 5.3.3
• Lorentz transformations, 1.1
• luminosity, 207
• Mandelstam variables, • ‣ 3.3
• Maxwell’s equations, one pseudo-scalar
• minimal coupling, 3.1
• optical theorem, 5.3.1
• Pauli’s exclusion principle, 1, 5.3.2
• Pauli’s fundamental theorem, 2.4
• phase space, • ‣ 3.3, 6.3
• polarisation
  • longitudinal, 3.1, 5.3, 5.3.2, 5.3.2
  • physical, 3.1, 5.3, 5.3.1
  • transverse, • ‣ 3.3, 5.3
  • vector, 3.1
• positron, 1
• pseudo-scalar, four vectors
• pseudo-vector, six tensors
• quarks, 4.3
• regularisation, 6
  • cut-off, 1
  • dimensional, 6
• renormalisable, 5.3.4
• renormalisation, 5.3.4
  • constant, 5.3.4
  • scale, 6
  • scheme, 6
• representation
  • adjoint, 5.1, 5.1
  • fundamental, 5.1, 5.3
• scalar, one scalar
• Schrödinger Equation, 1.1
• spin operator, 2.2
• spin states, 2.2
• spin-statistics theorem, 1
• Standard Model Lagrangian, 1
• structure constants, 5
• tensor, four vectors
• unitarity, 5.3.1
• vector, one scalar
• Ward identity, • ‣ 3.3, 5.3, 5.3.1, 6.1