Relativistic Quantum Fields
Relativistic Quantum Fields
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DOI:
10.1049/ep.1966.0046
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1966
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M. Say
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M. Say
It needs no more than the example of Einstein's theory of relativity to demonstrate that, outside a'comfortable normal'world, classical physics is almost certain to fail. It has to be replaced by wider and more pervading concepts, acquired by a gradual process of observation, theorising and testing. The physics of high-speed elementary particles is such a developing science, difficult, tentative and still unsatisfactory. It relies heavily on a Feynman-graph analysis, This volume (which starts at chap. 11 and is the second part of a work of which the first part dealt with relativistic quantum mechanics) aims to present the qualitative calculation, analysis and understanding of Feynman graphs to a wider community of physicists.The canonical quantisation makes the transition from the classical to the quantum theory, yielding a particle interpretation of the electromagnetic field. The perturbation expansion of the scattering amplitude constructed by canonical quantisation is shown to be identical with the Feynman rules given in the preceding volume of the work. With further graph analysis, dispersion-relation methods are illustrated. Finally, the finiteness of renormalised quantum electrodynamics to each order of the interaction is proved. Although it does not treat Schwinger's variational approach, nor deal extensively with the developments in axiomatic field theory and the S matrix, the book (with its first part) will'strongly interest physicists in the toils of the theory of high-speed particles.