We are pleased by the positive resonance of our book which now necessitates a fourth edition. We have used this opportunity to implement corrections of misprints and amendments at several places, and to extend and improve the discussion of many of the exercises and examples. We hope that our presentation of the method of equivalent photons (Example 3. 17), the form factor of the electron (Example 5. 7), the infrared catastrophe (Example 5. 8) and the energy shift of atomic levels (Example 5. 9)arenow even better to understand. The new Exercise 5. 10 shows in detail how to arrive at the non-relativistic limit for the calculation of form factors. Moreover, we have brought up-to-date the Biographical Notes about physicists who have contributed to the dev- opment of quantum electrodynamics, and references to experimental tests of the t- ory. For example, there has been recent progress in the determination of the electric and magnetic form factors of the proton (discussed in Exercise 3. 5 on the Rosenbluth formula) and the Lamb shift of high-Z atoms (discussed in Example 5. 9 on the energy shift of atomic levels), while the experimental veri cation of the birefringence of the QED vacuum in a strong magnetic eld (Example 7. 8) remains unsettled and is a topic of active ongoing research.

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Quantenelektrodynamik

Walter Greiner, Joachim Reinhardt; with a foreword by D.A. Bromley

Greiner, Walter, Joachim Reinhardt

Springer Spektrum. in Springer-Verlag GmbH

Steinkopff. in Springer-Verlag GmbH

Physics and Astronomy (Springer-11651; ZDB-2-PHA), 4th ed, Frankfurt am Main, ©2009

Springer Nature (Textbooks & Major Reference Works), Beijing, 2008

4th ed. 2009, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009

4th ed., Berlin, Germany, 2009

Germany, Germany

4, 2008

sm22675019

producers:
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword to Earlier Series Editions 6
Preface to the Fourth Edition 8
Preface to the Third Edition 9
Preface to the Second Edition 10
Preface to the First Edition 11
Contents 14
Contents of Examples and Exercises 16
Propagators and Scattering Theory 18
Introduction 18
The Nonrelativistic Propagator 19
Green's Function and Propagator 20
An Integral Equation for psi 23
Application to Scattering Problems 29
The Unitarity of the S Matrix 37
Symmetry Properties of the S Matrix 38
The Green's Function in Momentum Representation 40
Another Look at the Green's Function 46
Biographical Notes 55
The Propagators for Electrons and Positrons 56
Quantum-Electrodynamical Processes 94
Coulomb Scattering of Electrons 94
Scattering of an Electron off a Free Proton: The Effect of Recoil 113
Scattering of Identical Fermions 148
Electron-Positron Scattering 156
Scattering of Polarized Dirac Particles 167
Bremsstrahlung 174
Compton Scattering - The Klein-Nishina Formula 194
Annihilation of Particle and Antiparticle 207
Biographical Notes 256
Summary: The Feynman Rules of QED 259
The Feynman Rules of QED in Momentum Space 260
The Photon Propagator in Different Gauges 264
Biographical Notes 269
The Scattering Matrix in Higher Orders 270
Electron-Positron Scattering in Fourth Order 270
Vacuum Polarization 272
Self-Energy of the Electron 306
The Vertex Correction 313
Biographical Notes 342
Two-Particle Systems 344
The Bethe-Salpeter Equation 344
Biographical Notes 374
Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields 375
Strong Fields in Atoms 378
Strong Fields in Heavy Ion Collisions 406
The Effective Lagrangian of the Electromagnetic Field 416
Biographical Notes 438
Quantum Electrodynamics of Spinless Bosons 439
The Klein-Gordon Equation 440
The Feynman Propagator for Scalar Particles 441
The Scattering of Spin-0 Bosons 443
The Feynman Rules of Scalar Electrodynamics 448
Appendix 455
Subject Index 457

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

A book on Quantum Electrodynamics that provides the necessary mathematical tools together with many examples and worked problems. It introduces various number of scattering and radiation processes involving electrons, positrons, and photons; and also presents their theoretical treatment.

2015-07-15