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Quantum Electrodynamics

By Walter Greiner , Joachim Reinhardt

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2008
ISBN
3540875603, 9783540875604
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5289310 bytes)
Edition
4th ed.
Pages
448\461
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This textbook on Quantum Electrodynamics 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 relativistic versions. Subsequently, a large number of scattering and radiation processes involving electrons, positrons, and photons are introduced and their theoretical treatment is presented in great detail. Higher order processes and renormalization are also included. The book concludes with a discussion of two-particle states and the interaction of spinless bosons. This completely revised and corrected new edition provides several additions to enable deeper insight in formalism and application of quantum electrodynamics.

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