Ebook: Quantum Electrodynamics

This completely revised and corrected new edition provides several new examples and exercises to enable deeper insight in 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 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.

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This completely revised and corrected new edition provides several new examples and exercises to enable deeper insight in 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 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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Propagators and Scattering Theory....Pages 1-41
The Propagators for Electrons and Positrons....Pages 43-82
Quantum-Electrodynamical Processes....Pages 83-257
Summary: The Feynman Rules of QED....Pages 259-269
The Scattering Matrix in Higher Orders....Pages 271-345
Two-Particle Systems....Pages 347-379
Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields....Pages 381-448
Quantum Electrodynamics of Spinless Bosons....Pages 449-466
Back Matter....Pages 467-475

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This completely revised and corrected new edition provides several new examples and exercises to enable deeper insight in 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 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.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Propagators and Scattering Theory....Pages 1-41
The Propagators for Electrons and Positrons....Pages 43-82
Quantum-Electrodynamical Processes....Pages 83-257
Summary: The Feynman Rules of QED....Pages 259-269
The Scattering Matrix in Higher Orders....Pages 271-345
Two-Particle Systems....Pages 347-379
Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields....Pages 381-448
Quantum Electrodynamics of Spinless Bosons....Pages 449-466
Back Matter....Pages 467-475
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