Quantum Electrodynamics

front-matter......Page 1
Foreword to Earlier Series Editions......Page 5
Preface to the Fourth Edition......Page 7
Preface to the Third Edition......Page 8
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 9
Preface to the First Edition......Page 10
Contents......Page 13
Contents of Examples and Exercises......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
The Nonrelativistic Propagator......Page 18
Green's Function and Propagator......Page 19
An Integral Equation for psi......Page 22
Application to Scattering Problems......Page 28
The Unitarity of the S Matrix......Page 36
Symmetry Properties of the S Matrix......Page 37
The Green's Function in Momentum Representation......Page 39
Another Look at the Green's Function......Page 45
Biographical Notes......Page 54
The Propagators for Electrons and Positrons......Page 55
Coulomb Scattering of Electrons......Page 93
Scattering of an Electron off a Free Proton: The Effect of Recoil......Page 112
Scattering of Identical Fermions......Page 147
Electron-Positron Scattering......Page 155
Scattering of Polarized Dirac Particles......Page 166
Bremsstrahlung......Page 173
Compton Scattering - The Klein-Nishina Formula......Page 193
Annihilation of Particle and Antiparticle......Page 206
Biographical Notes......Page 255
Summary: The Feynman Rules of QED......Page 258
The Feynman Rules of QED in Momentum Space......Page 259
The Photon Propagator in Different Gauges......Page 263
Biographical Notes......Page 268
Electron-Positron Scattering in Fourth Order......Page 269
Vacuum Polarization......Page 271
Self-Energy of the Electron......Page 305
The Vertex Correction......Page 312
Biographical Notes......Page 341
The Bethe-Salpeter Equation......Page 343
Biographical Notes......Page 373
Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields......Page 374
Strong Fields in Atoms......Page 377
Strong Fields in Heavy Ion Collisions......Page 405
The Effective Lagrangian of the Electromagnetic Field......Page 415
Biographical Notes......Page 437
Quantum Electrodynamics of Spinless Bosons......Page 438
The Klein-Gordon Equation......Page 439
The Feynman Propagator for Scalar Particles......Page 440
The Scattering of Spin-0 Bosons......Page 442
The Feynman Rules of Scalar Electrodynamics......Page 447
Appendix......Page 454
Subject Index......Page 456