Quantum Electrodynamics
2nd Edition
Published on 6. December 2012
417 pages
978-3-642-88022-3 (ISBN)
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The need for a second edition of our text on Quantum Electrodynamics has given us the opportunity to implement some corrections and amendments. We have corrected a number of misprints and minor errors and have supplied additional explanatory remarks at various places. Furthermore some new material has been included on the magnetic moment of the muon (in Example 5. 6) and on the Lamb shift (in Example 5. 8). Finally, we have added the new Example 3. 17 which explains the equivalent photon method. We thank several colleagues for helpful comments and also are grateful to Dr. R. Mattiello who has supervised the preparation of the second edition of the book. Furthermore we acknowledge the agreeable collaboration with Dr. H. J. K6lsch and his team at Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg. Frankfurt am Main, Walter Greiner July 1994 Joachim Reinhardt Preface to the First Edition Theoretical physics has become a many-faceted science. For the young student it is difficult enough to cope with the overwhelming amount of new scientific material that has to be learned, let alone obtain an overview of the entire field, which ranges from mechanics through electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, field theory, nuclear and heavy-ion science, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and solid state theory to elementary-particle physics. And this knowledge should be acquired in just 8-10 semesters, during which, in addition, a Diploma or Master's thesis has to be worked on or examinations prepared for.
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1. Propagators and Scattering Theory.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The Nonrelativistic Propagator.- 1.3 Green's Function and Propagator.- 1.4 An Integral Equation for ?.- 1.5 Application to Scattering Problems.- 1.6 The Unitarity of the S-Matrix.- 1.7 Symmetry Properties of the S-Matrix.- 1.8 The Green's Function in Momentum Representation and Its Properties.- 1.9 Another Look at the Green's Function for Interacting Particles.- 1.10 Biographical Notes.- 2. The Propagators for Electrons and Positrons.- 3. Quantum-Electrodynamical Processes.- 3.1 Coulomb Scattering of Electrons.- 3.2 Scattering of an Electron off a Free Proton: The Effect of Recoil.- 3.3 Scattering of Identical Fermions.- 3.4 Electron-Positron Scattering: Bhabha Scattering and Muon Pair Creation.- 3.5 Scattering of Polarized Dirac Particles.- 3.6 Bremsstrahlung.- 3.7 Compton Scattering - The Klein-Nishina Formula.- 3.8 Annihilation of Particle and Antiparticle.- 3.9 Biographical Notes.- 4. Summary: The Feynman Rules of QED.- 4.1 The Feynman Rules of QED in Momentum Space.- 4.2 The Photon Propagator in Different Gauges.- 4.3 Biographical Notes.- 5. The Scattering Matrix in Higher Orders.- 5.1 Electron1-Positron Scattering in Fourth Order.- 5.2 Vacuum Polarization.- 5.3 Self-Energy of the Electron.- 5.4 The Vertex Correction.- 5.5 Biographical Notes.- 6. Two-Particle Systems.- 6.1 The Bethe-Salpeter Equation.- 6.2 Biographical Note.- 7. Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields.- 7.1 Strong Fields in Atoms.- 7.2 Strong Fields in Heavy Ion Collisions.- 7.3 The Effective Lagrangian of the Electromagnetic Field.- 7.4 Biographical Notes.- 8. Quantum Electrodynamics of Spinless Bosons.- 8.1 The Klein-Gordon Equation.- 8.2 The Feynman Propagator for Scalar Particles.- 8.3 The Scattering of Spin-0 Bosons.- 8.4The Feynman Rules of Scalar Electrodynamics.
