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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911006551103321
• Autore: Berestetskii V. B (Vladimir Borisovich)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1982
• ISBN: 1-280-58278-2; 9786613612564; 0-08-050346-2
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (669 p.)
• Collana: Course of theoretical physics ; ; v. 4
• Altri autori (Persone): LifshitsE. M (Evgenii Mikhailovich); PitaevskiiL. P (Lev Petrovich); BerestetskiiV. B (Vladimir Borisovich); SykesJ. B (John Bradbury); BellJ. S
• Disciplina: 537.6
• Soggetti: Quantum electrodynamics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Rev. ed. of: Relativistic quantum theory. 1st ed. 1971-1974.; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.