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From the Preface:
This material was given to the fifth year High Energy Physics students of the Novosibirsk State University in 2017–2022. These students studied quantum electrodynamics in the preceding semester and Quantum and Analytical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics and Introduction into Field Theory in previous years. Therefore, they had knowledge of Group Theory, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian approaches, Canonical Quantization and Feynman diagrams, including one-loop integration and renormalization in Quantum Electrodynamics. However, no knowledge of Functional Integration was assumed. This is an introductory compulsory course spanning one semester of 18 weeks, 18 lectures, and 18 problem solving sessions. The material in each chapter usually took from one to three weeks. More advanced topics are covered in the follow-up optional course on QCD.
The course persues the following aims:
Gives the main physical ideas of the theory of strong interactions: asymptotic freedom, confi nement, chiral symmetry breaking, anomalies, condensates.
Introduces the principal concepts and methods: SU(N) group symmetry, gauge invariance, renormalisation, functional integration, lattice, chiral perturbation theory, parton distribution functions, evolution equations.
Links the theory and experiment discussing high energy scattering and low energy eff ective Lagrangians.
This course tries to give solid but as short as possible technical foundation. The material in each section is mostly taken from the sources given at the end of the section. The level of rigor is physical rather than mathematical. Constructed as a one-term course on strong interactions for advanced students, it will be a useful self-study guide for graduate and PhD students of high energy physics, Quantum Chromodynamics, and the Standard Model