Gauge Field Theories: Spontaneous and explicit global symmetry breaking

Preface Introduction 1. Classical fields, symmetries and their breaking 2. Path integral formulation of quantum field theory 3. Feynman rules for Yang-Mills theories 4. Introduction to the theory of renormalization 5. Quantum electrodynamics 6. Renormalization group 7. Scale invariance and operator product expansion 8. Quantum chromodynamics 9. Chiral symmetry, spontaneous symmetry breaking 10. Spontaneous and explicit global symmetry breaking 11. Higgs mechanisms in gauge theories 12. Standard electroweak theory 13. Chiral anomalies 14. Effective lagrangians 15. Introduction to supersymmetry Appendices.