Quantum Electrodynamics

by Greiner, Walter; Reinhardt, Joachim; Bromley, D. Allan

• ISBN13: 9783540440291
• ISBN10: 3540440291
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Revised and expanded edition provides several new examples and exercises in quantum electrodynamics to enable deeper insight into the formalism and application. Previous edition c1994. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Propagators and Scattering Theory	1	(42)
Introduction	1	(1)
The Nonrelativistic Propagator	2	(1)
Green's Function and Propagator	3	(4)
An Integral Equation for ψ	7	(5)
Application to Scattering Problems	12	(9)
The Unitarity of the S Matrix	21	(1)
Symmetry Properties of the S Matrix	22	(3)
The Green's Function in Momentum Representation and Its Properties	25	(6)
Another Look at the Green's Function for Interacting Particles	31	(9)
Biographical Notes	40	(3)
The Propagators for Electrons and Positrons	43	(40)
Quantum-Electrodynamical Processes	83	(176)
Coulomb Scattering of Electrons	83	(20)
Scattering of an Electron off a Free Proton: The Effect of Recoil	103	(38)
Scattering of Identical Fermions	141	(8)
Electron--Positron Scattering: Bhabha Scattering and Muon Pair Creation	149	(12)
Scattering of Polarized Dirac Particles	161	(7)
Bremsstrahlung	168	(21)
Compton Scattering -- The Klein--Nishina Formula	189	(14)
Annihilation of Particle and Antiparticle	203	(53)
Biographical Notes	256	(3)
Summary: The Feynman Rules of QED	259	(12)
The Feynman Rules of QED in Momentum Space	260	(5)
The Photon Propagator in Different Gauges	265	(4)
Biographical Notes	269	(2)
The Scattering Matrix in Higher Orders	271	(76)
Electron--Positron Scattering in Fourth Order	271	(3)
Vacuum Polarization	274	(35)
Self-Energy of the Electron	309	(7)
The Vertex Correction	316	(28)
Biographical Notes	344	(3)
Two-Particle Systems	347	(34)
The Bethe--Salpeter Equation	347	(32)
Biographical Notes	379	(2)
Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields	381	(68)
Strong Fields in Atoms	385	(30)
Strong Fields in Heavy Ion Collisions	415	(10)
The Effective Lagrangian of the Electromagnetic Field	425	(22)
Biographical Notes	447	(2)
Quantum Electrodynamics of Spinless Bosons	449	(18)
The Klein--Gordon Equation	450	(2)
The Feynman Propagator for Scalar Particles	452	(1)
The Scattering of Spin-0 Bosons	453	(6)
The Feynman Rules of Scalar Electrodynamics	459	(8)
Appendix	467	(2)
Index	469