Particles, Sources, and Fields

✍ Scribed by Julian Schwinger

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text (volume 2 of 3 volumes) is almost exclusively concerned with quantum electrodynamics & is retrospective in the subject matter. Topics range from anomalous magnetic moments & vacuum polarization, in a variety of applications, to the energy excursions into nuclear & high-energy physics. Paper.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
4. Electrodynamics I......Page 16
4–1 charged Particle Propagation Functions......Page 17
4–2 A Magnetic Moment CaIculation......Page 35
4–3 Photon Propagation Function......Page 42
4–4 Form Factors I. Scattering......Page 65
4–5 Form Factors II: Single and DoubIe SpectraI Forms......Page 87
4–6 Form Factors III. Spin ½......Page 104
4–7 Form Factors IV. The Deuteron......Page 121
4–8 Scattering of Light by Light I. Low Frequencies......Page 138
4–9 Scattering of Light by Light II. Forward Scattering......Page 149
4–10 Scattering of Light by Light III. Double Spectral Forms......Page 159
4–11 H-Particle Energy Displacements. Nonrelativistic Discussion......Page 171
4–12 A Relativistic Scattering Calculation......Page 192
4–13 Photon-Charged ParticIe Scattering......Page 203
4–14 Non-Casual Methods......Page 233
4–15 H-Particle Energy Displacements. Spin 0 Relativistic Theory......Page 254
4–16 H-Particle Energy Displacements. Spin ½ Relativistic Theory I......Page 269
4–17 H-Particle Energy Displacements. Spin ½ Relativistic Theory II......Page 294
C......Page 314
E......Page 315
G......Page 316
L......Page 317
P......Page 318
S......Page 319
T......Page 320
X......Page 321