PHY540: Scattering Amplitudes
Instructor: Sebastian Mizera
Term: Spring 2025
Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays, 11.00am - 12.20pm, Jadwin A07
Office hours: Tuesdays, 11.00am - 12.20pm, Jadwin 409
Teaching assistant: Anna Biggs
Assignments: Bi-weekly problem sets
This is a website for the Princeton University course “Scattering Amplitudes” offered in the Spring 2024-2025 term.
This course will focus on scattering amplitudes which are central objects in quantum field theory used to confront theory with experiment. Topics covered include: foundations of scattering theory, classification of particles, relativistic kinematics, spinor-helicity formalism, unitarity and causality constraints, on-shell recursion relations, effective field theories, infrared and ultraviolet divergences, theory of complex angular momenta, emergence of classical physics, gravitational S-matrix.
Lecture notes: Access current version here (for enrolled students only)