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Quantum electrodynamics / by V.B. Berestetskii, E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and J.S. Bell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berestet︠s︡kiĭ, V. B. (Vladimir Borisovich)
- Series:
- Landau, L. D. (Lev Davidovich), 1908-1968. English ; Teoreticheskai͡a fizika (Izd. 2-e). v. 4.
- Course of theoretical physics ; v. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quantum electrodynamics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (669 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1982 (2008 printing)
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Several significant additions have been made to the second edition, including the operator method of calculating the bremsstrahlung cross-section, the calculation of the probabilities of photon-induced pair production and photon decay in a magneticfield, the asymptotic form of the scattering amplitudes at high energies, inelastic scattering of electrons by hadrons, and the transformation of electron-positron pairs into hadrons.
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Quantum Electrodynamics: Course of Theoretical Physics; Copyright Page; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; NOTATION; INTRODUCTION; 1. The uncertainty principle in the relativistic case; CHAPTER I. PHOTONS; 2. Quantization of the free electromagnetic field; 3. Photons; 4. Gauge invariance; 5. The electromagnetic field in quantum theory; 6. The angular momentum and parity of the photon; 7. Spherical waves of photons; 8. The polarization of the photon; 9. A two-photon system; CHAPTER II. BOSONS
- 10. The wave equation for particles with spin zero11. Particles and antiparticles; 12. Strictly neutral particles; 13. The transformations C, P and T; 14. The wave equation for a particle with spin one; 15. The wave equation for particles with higher integral spins; 16. Helicity states of a particle; CHAPTER III. FERMIONS; 17. Four-dimensional spinors; 18. The relation between spinors and 4-vectors; 19. Inversion of spinors; 20. Dirac's equation in the spinor representation; 21. The symmetrical form of Dirac's equation; 22. Algebra of Dirac matrices; 23. Plane waves; 24. Spherical waves
- 25. The relation between the spin and the statistics 26. Charge conjugation and time reversal of spinors; 27. Internal symmetry of particles and antiparticles; 28. Bilinear forms; 29. The polarization density matrix; 30. Neutrinos; 31. The wave equation for a particle with spin 3/2; CHAPTER IV. PARTICLES IN AN EXTERNAL FIELD; 32. Dirac's equation for an electron in an external field; 33: Expansion in powers of 1/c; 34. Fine structure of levels of the hydrogen atom; 35. Motion in a centrally symmetric field; 36. Motion in a Coulomb field; 37. Scattering in a centrally symmetric field
- 38. Scattering in the ultra-relativistic case 39. The continuous-spectrum wave functions for scattering in a Coulomb field; 40. An electron in the field of an electromagnetic plane wave; 41. Motion of spin in an external field; 42. Neutron scattering in an electric field; CHAPTER V. RADIATION; 43. The electromagnetic interaction operator; 44. Emission and absorption; 45. Dipole radiation; 46. Electric multipole radiation; 47. Magnetic multipole radiation; 48. Angular distribution and polarization of the radiation; 49. Radiation from atoms: the electric type
- 50. Radiation from atoms: the magnetic type51. Radiation from atoms: the Zeeman and Stark effects; 52. Radiation from atoms: the hydrogen atom; 53. Radiation from diatomic molecules: electronic spectra; 54. Radiation from diatomic molecules: vibrational and rotational spectra; 55. Radiation from nuclei; 56. The photoelectric effect: non-relativistic case; 57. The photoelectric effect: relativistic case; 58. Photodisintegration of the deuteron; CHAPTER VI. SCATTERING OF RADIATION; 59. The scattering tensor; 60. Scattering by freely oriented systems; 61. Scattering by molecules
- 62. Natural width of spectral lines
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: Relativistic quantum theory. 1st ed. 1971-1974.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-58278-2
- 9786613612564
- 0-08-050346-2
- OCLC:
- 782878389
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