Perturbative Quantum Electrodynamics and Axiomatic Field Theory - Couverture rigide

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Steinmann, Othmar

 
9783540670247: Perturbative Quantum Electrodynamics and Axiomatic Field Theory
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 3540670246 ISBN 13 : 9783540670247
Editeur : Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 2000

Synopsis

This book is concerned with relativistic quantum field theory, especially QED, its most successful example. It is set in the no-man's land between the math- ematically rigorous but numerically barren general field theory of the math- ematical physicist and the computationally fertile but mathematically some- times adventurous field theory of the more phenomenologically inclined, and it aims at demonstrating that closer contact between these two disparate cultures may be of benefit to both. Perturbative QED serves as an exam- ple. It is shown how the rules of perturbative quantum field theory, one of the major tools of phenomenology, can be derived from well-defined general assumptions in a mathematically clean way, in particular, not using any reg- ularizations. Special emphasis is placed on giving the infrared problem its full due. This leads, among other things, to an unorthodox method based on the local-observables approach to field theory, of describing particles and their reactions. The resulting scattering formalism is immediately applica- ble to the infraparticle situation of QED by directly yielding expressions for the observable-inclusive cross sections, dispensing with the notion of an S- matrix. Interestingly enough, these expressions differ somewhat from those of the conventional approach. This point will hopefully give rise to interesting and fruitful discussions. I have been working on these sorts of problems on and off for a long time.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This novel approach is presented for the first time in book form. The author demonstrates that fundamental concepts and methods from phenomenological particle physics can be derived rigorously from well-defined general assumptions in a mathematically clean way.

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Éditeur
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3540670246
ISBN 13 
9783540670247
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
355
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