Hello,
I am a first year graduate student in physics who is interested in getting involved in the field of lattice QCD. I purchased the text "Lattice methods for quantum chromodynamics" by DeGrand and Detar. I have never taken a course on quantum field theory, but I hoped that having knowledge of quantum mechanics at the level of Sakurai and E&M at the level of Jackson could *possibly* enable me to understand the text. I was most definitely wrong in that assumption. It seems pretty clear you need to already understand QFT somewhat.
Is anyone familiar with this text? If so, what textbooks should I go through first, or a least have by my side as I try to slog through this one? I have noticed the authors sometimes quote the QFT text by Peskin and Schroeder. Maybe this would be a good place to start?
Thanks for reading
I am a first year graduate student in physics who is interested in getting involved in the field of lattice QCD. I purchased the text "Lattice methods for quantum chromodynamics" by DeGrand and Detar. I have never taken a course on quantum field theory, but I hoped that having knowledge of quantum mechanics at the level of Sakurai and E&M at the level of Jackson could *possibly* enable me to understand the text. I was most definitely wrong in that assumption. It seems pretty clear you need to already understand QFT somewhat.
Is anyone familiar with this text? If so, what textbooks should I go through first, or a least have by my side as I try to slog through this one? I have noticed the authors sometimes quote the QFT text by Peskin and Schroeder. Maybe this would be a good place to start?
Thanks for reading
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