Quantum electrodynamics
By: Walter Greiner, Joachim Reinhardt ; with a foreword by D.A. Bromley.
Contributors: Reinhardt, J. 1952-
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
Subjects: Quantum electrodynamics; Quantum electrodynamics -- Problems, exercises, etc
Genres: Problems, exercises, etc.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.