Quantum Electrodynamics
Volume 4

V B Berestetskii (Author), L. P. Pitaevskii (Author), E.M. Lifshitz (Author)

9780750633710, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 5 August 1996

680 pages
24 x 16.5 x 4.1 cm, 0.993 kg

"The treatment is thorough.. it is careful without being pedantic; and it is well supplied with applications to experimental situations...excellent value." --Physics Bulletin

Several significant additions have been made to the second edition, including the operator method of calculating the bremsstrahlung cross-section, the calcualtion of the probabilities of photon-induced pair production and photon decay in a magnetic field, 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.

Prefaces
Introduction
Photons
Bosons
Fermions
Particles in an external field
Radiation
Scattering of radiation
Invariant perturbation theory
Interaction of electrons
Radiative corrections
Electrodynamics of hadrons
Index.

Subject Areas: Quantum physics [quantum mechanics & quantum field theory PHQ], Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism [PHK]