Quantum electrodynamics / Walter Greiner, Joachim Reinhardt ; with a foreword by D.A. Bromley.
| Author/creator | Greiner, Walter |
| Other author | Reinhardt, J. (Joachim), 1952- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 3rd ed. |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2003. |
| Description | xvi, 475 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Springer Nature Book Archives Millennium (2000-2004) |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Quantenelektrodynamik. English |
| Contents | 1. Propagators and Scattering Theory -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The Nonrelativistic Propagator -- 1.3. Green's Function and Propagator -- 1.4. An Integral Equation for [psi] -- 1.5. Application to Scattering Problems -- 1.6. The Unitarity of the S Matrix -- 1.7. Symmetry Properties of the S Matrix -- 1.8. The Green's Function in Momentum Representation and Its Properties -- 1.9. Another Look at the Green's Function for Interacting Particles -- 2. The Propagators for Electrons and Positrons -- 3. Quantum-Electrodynamical Processes -- 3.1. Coulomb Scattering of Electrons. |
| Contents | 3.2. Scattering of an Electron off a Free Proton: The Effect of Recoil -- 3.3. Scattering of Identical Fermions -- 3.4. Electron-Positron Scattering: Bhabha Scattering and Muon Pair Creation -- 3.5. Scattering of Polarized Dirac Particles -- 3.6. Bremsstrahlung -- 3.7. Compton Scattering -- The Klein-Nishina Formula -- 3.8. Annihilation of Particle and Antiparticle -- 4. Summary: The Feynman Rules of QED -- 4.1. The Feynman Rules of QED in Momentum Space -- 4.2. The Photon Propagator in Different Gauges -- 5. The Scattering Matrix in Higher Orders -- 5.1. Electron-Positron Scattering in Fourth Order. |
| Contents | 5.2. Vacuum Polarization -- 5.3. Self-Energy of the Electron -- 5.4. The Vertex Correction -- 6. Two-Particle Systems -- 6.1. The Bethe-Salpeter Equation -- 7. Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields -- 7.1. Strong Fields in Atoms -- 7.2. Strong Fields in Heavy Ion Collisions -- 7.3. The Effective Lagrangian of the Electromagnetic Field -- 8. Quantum Electrodynamics of Spinless Bosons -- 8.1. The Klein-Gordon Equation -- 8.2. The Feynman Propagator for Scalar Particles -- 8.3. The Scattering of Spin-O Bosons -- 8.4. The Feynman Rules of Scalar Electrodynamics. |
| Review | "This completely revised and corrected new edition provides several new examples and exercises to enable deeper insight into the formalism and application of quantum electrodynamics. It is a thorough introductory text providing all necessary mathematical tools together with many examples and worked problems. In their presentation of the subject, the authors adopt a heuristic approach based on the propagator formalism. The latter is introduced in the first two chapters in both its nonrelativistic and its relativistic versions. |
| Review | Subsequently, a large number of scattering and radiation progresses involving electrons, positrons, and photons are introduced and their theoretical treatment is presented in great detail. Higher-order processes and renormalization are also included as is the quantum electrodynamics of strong fields. The book concludes with a discussion of two-particle states and the interaction of spinless bosons."--Cover. |
| General note | Textbook for graduates. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Translated from the German. |
| Genre/form | Problems and exercises. |
| LCCN | 2003265342 |
| ISBN | 3540440291 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9783540440291 (paperback) |