Ebook: Relativistic Particle Physics
Author: Hartmut M. Pilkuhn (auth.)
- Genre: Physics // Quantum Physics
- Tags: Optics and Electrodynamics, Quantum Physics
- Series: Texts and Monographs in Physics
- Year: 1979
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Why study relativistic particle physics? Because of deeper understanding, curiosity and applications. Consider first deeper understanding. Physics forms the basis of many other sciences, and relativistic particle physics forms the basis of physics. Starting from nonrelativistic point mechanics, there are three major steps: first to classical (unquantized) relativistic electrodynamics, then to non relativistic quantum mechanics and finally to relativistic quantum physics. This book describes the third step. Relativistic particle problems which are mainly classical (such as synchrotron radiation) are largely omitted (see for example Jackson 1975). I have divided the subject into several smaller steps. The step from the Schrödinger equation to the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations (chapter 1) is easy, apart from logical inconsistencies in limiting cases. Chapter 2 deals mainly with two-particle problems. From two-particle unitarity (sect. 2-5) and a symmetric treatment of projectile and target in the Born approxima tion to scattering (sect. 2-7), one is able to deduce recoil corrections to the relativistic one-particle equations (mainly the reduced mass, sect. 2-9). The final formulas provide a rather firm basis for atomic physics. Quantum electrodynamics (QED) is presented in chapter 3. Clearly, many things must be omitted if one allots one chapter to the subject of whole 1976, Källen 1958, Akhiezer and Berestetskii books (Jauch and Rohrlieh 1965, Bjorken and Drell 1965, Landau and Lifshitz 1971, 1975, and others).
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
One-Particle Problems....Pages 1-37
Two-Particle Problems....Pages 38-77
Radiation and Quantum Electrodynamics....Pages 78-135
The Particle Zoo....Pages 136-208
Weak Interactions....Pages 209-268
Analyticity and Strong Interactions....Pages 269-322
Particular Hadronic Processes....Pages 323-365
Particular Electromagnetic Processes in Collisions with Atoms and Nuclei....Pages 366-373
Back Matter....Pages 375-427
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
One-Particle Problems....Pages 1-37
Two-Particle Problems....Pages 38-77
Radiation and Quantum Electrodynamics....Pages 78-135
The Particle Zoo....Pages 136-208
Weak Interactions....Pages 209-268
Analyticity and Strong Interactions....Pages 269-322
Particular Hadronic Processes....Pages 323-365
Particular Electromagnetic Processes in Collisions with Atoms and Nuclei....Pages 366-373
Back Matter....Pages 375-427
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