Preface; Part I. Quantum Field Theory: Ouverture: concepts of quantum field theory; 1. Basics of quantum field theory; 2. Scalar field theory and canonical quantization; 3. From particles to wavicles and back; 4. Perturbative scalar field functional integral in dimensional regularization; 5. Renormalization group; 6. Quantization of the free electromagnetic field; 7.

Charged states in scalar quantum electrodynamics; 8. Canonical quantization of free Weyl, Dirac, and Majorana fermions; 9. Fermionic functional integrals; 10. Chiral symmetry in the continuum and on the lattice; 11. Non-Abelian gauge fields; Part II. Construction of the Standard Model: Intermezzo: concepts of the Standard Model; 12. Spontaneous breakdown of global symmetries: from condensed matter to Higgs bosons; 13. Local symmetry and the Higgs mechanism: from superconductivity to electroweak gauge bosons; 14.

Gluons: from confinement to deconfinement; 15. One generation of leptons and quarks; 16. Fermion masses; 17. Several generations and flavor physics of quarks and leptons; Part III. Strong Interaction: 18. Quantum Chromodynamics; 19. Topology of gauge fields; 20. U(1)A-problem; 21.

Spectrum of light baryons and mesons; 22. Partons and hard processes; 23. Chiral perturbation theory; 24. Topology of Nambu-Goldstone boson fields; Part IV. Selected Topics beyond the Standard Model: 25. Strong CP-problem; 26. Grand unified theories; Finale; Appendix A. Highlights in the development of particle physics; Appendix B.

Units, hierarchies, and fundamental parameters; Appendix C. Structure of Minkowski space-time; Appendix D. Relativistic formulation of classical electrodynamics; Appendix E. From the Galilei to the Poincaré algebra; Appendix F. Lie groups and Lie algebras; Appendix G. Homotopy groups and topology; Appendix H. Monte Carlo method; Appendix I. Phase transitions and critical phenomena; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index.