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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greiner, Walter, 1935-2016.

Contributor:

Reinhardt, J. (Joachim), 1952-

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Quantenelektrodynamik. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Quantum electrodynamics.

Quantum electrodynamics--Problems, exercises, etc.

Genre:

Problems and exercises.

Physical Description:

xvi, 475 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2003]

Summary:

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

3540440291

OCLC:

51752951