Particles, sources, and fields
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Particles, sources, and fields
（Advanced book classics）（Advanced book program）
Perseus Books, 1998
- v. 1
- v. 2
- v. 3
Available at 5 libraries
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Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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v. 1 ISBN 9780738200538
Description
This classic, the first of three volumes, presents techniques that emphasize the unity of high-energy particle physics with electrodynamics, gravitational theory, and many-particle cooperative phenomena. What emerges is a theory intermediate in position between operator field theory and S-matrix theory, which rejects the dogmas of each and gains thereby a calculational ease and intuitiveness that make it a worthy contender to displace the earlier formulations.
Table of Contents
Particles * Unitary Transformations * Galilean Relativity * Einsteinian Relativity * Critique of Particle Theory Sources * Spin 0 Particles. Weak Source * Spin 0 Particles. Strong Source * Spin 1 Particles. The Photon * Spin 2 Particles. The Gravitron * Particles with Arbitrary Integer Spin * Spin Particles. Fermi-Dirac Statistics * More About Spin Particles Neutrinos * Particles of Integer + Spin * Unification of All Spins and Statistics Fields * The Field Concept. Spin 0 Particles * The Field Concept. Spin Particles * Some Other Spin Values * Multispinor Fields * Action * Invariance Transformations and Fluxes. Charge * Invariance Transformations and Fluxes. Mechanical Properties * The Electromagnetic Field. Magnetic Charge * Charge Quantization. Mass Normalization * Primitive Electromagnetic Interactions and Source Models * Extended Sources. Soft Photons * Interaction Skeleton. Scattering Cross Sections * Spin Processes * Sources as Scatterers * H-Particles * Instability and Multiparticle Exchange * The Gravitational Field
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v. 2 ISBN 9780738200545
Description
This classic book (volume two of three volumes) is almost exclusively concerned with quantum electrodynamics. As such, it is retrospective in its subject matter. The topics discussed range from anomalous magnetic moments and vacuum polarization, in a variety of applications, to the energy level displacements in hydrogenic atoms, with occasional excursions into nuclear and high-energy physics. Based as it is upon the conceptually and computationally simple foundations of source theory, little in the way of formal mathematical apparatus is required, and thus most of the book is devoted to the working out of physical problems.
Table of Contents
Electrodynamics I * Charged Particle Propagation Functions * A Magnetic Moment Calculation * Photon Propagation Function * From Factors I. Scattering * From Factors II. Single and Double Spectral Forms * From Factors III. Spin * From Factors IV. The Deuteron * Scattering by Light I. Low Frequencies * Scattering by Light II. Forward Scattering * Scattering by Light III. Double Spectral Forms * H-Particle Energy Displacements. Nonrelativistic Discussion * A Relativistic Scattering Calculation * Photon-Charged Particle Scattering * Non-Causal Methods * H-Particle Energy Displacements. Spin 0 Relativistic Theory * H-Particle Energy Displacements. Spin Relativistic Theory I * H-Particle Energy Displacements. Spin Relativistic Theory II
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v. 3 ISBN 9780738200552
Description
An extension of Dr. Schwinger's two previous classic works, this volume contains four sections in addition to the previous sections of Electrodynamics II, which were concerned with the two-particle problem, and applications to hydrogenic atoms, positronium, and muonium.
Table of Contents
Electrodynamics * Two-Particle Interactions. Non-relativistic Discussion * Two-Particle Interactions. Relativistic Theory I * Two-Particle Interactions. Relativistic Theory II * Photon Propagation Function II * Positronium Muonium * Strong Magnetic Fields * Electron Magnetic Moment * Photon Propagation Function III * Photon Decay of the Pion. A Confrontation.
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