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Dispersion Relations Scottish Universities’ Summer School 1960

By G.R. Screaton (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Oliver & Boyd
Year
1961
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (22878553 bytes)
Series
Scottish Universities’ Summer School Volume 1
Volume
1
Pages
304\304
Time added
2017-09-26 01:19:04
Axiomatic Quantum Field TheoryDispersion RelationsParticle physicsQuantum Field Theory

Description

A series of lectures on various shades of the non-perturbative approach to calculating scattering amplitudes via the dispersion-theoretic approach, which took-off with a paper by Gell-Mann, Goldberger and Thirring, Phys. Rev. 95 1612 (1954), "Use Of Causality Conditions In Quantum Theory", wherein they DERIVE the Kramers-Kronig relation from the microcausality condition. This really started an explosion of interest in dispersion-theoretic techniques because it seemed that perturbative QFT, at the time, was failing on every front concerning the strong interactions. The historical survey by John David Jackson is valuable.

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