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
Edition3rd ed.
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : Springer, ©2003.
Descriptionxvi, 475 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Springer Nature Book Archives Millennium (2000-2004)
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

Uniform titleQuantenelektrodynamik. 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 noteTextbook for graduates.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageTranslated from the German.
Genre/formProblems and exercises.
LCCN 2003265342
ISBN3540440291 (paperback)
ISBN9783540440291 (paperback)