Particles, Sources, And Fields, Volume 1

Presents techniques that emphasize the unity of high-energy particle physics with electrodynamics, gravitational theory, & many-particle cooperative phenomena, (First of 3 volumes). Paper. Contents......Page 14 1-1 Unitary Transformations......Page 20 1-2 Galilean Relativity......Page 26 1-3 Einsteinian Relativity......Page 34 1-4 Critique of Particle Theories......Page 43 2. Sources......Page 56 2-1 Spin 0 Particles. Weak Source......Page 57 2-2 Spin 0 Particles. Strong Source......Page 69 2-3 Spin 1 Particles. The Photon......Page 86 2-4 Spin 2 Particles. The Graviton......Page 97 2-5 Particles with Arbitrary Integer Spin......Page 104 2-6 Spin 1/2 Particles. Fermi-Dirac Statistics......Page 118 2-7 More About Spin 1/2 Particles. Neutrinos......Page 133 2-8 Particles of Integer + 1/2 Spin......Page 146 2-9 Unification of All Spins and Statistics......Page 153 3-1 The Field Concept. Spin 0 Particles......Page 164 3-2 The Field Concept. Spin 1/2 Particles......Page 176 3-3 Some Other Spin Values......Page 183 3-4 Multispinor Fields......Page 196 3-5 Action......Page 205 3-6 Invariance Transformations and Fluxes. Charge......Page 218 3-7 Invariance Transformations and Fluxes. Mechanical Properties......Page 228 3-8 The Electromagnetic Field. Magnetic Charge......Page 246 3-9 Charge Quantization. Mass Normalization......Page 258 3-10 Primitive EIectromagnetic Interactions and Source Models......Page 273 3-11 Extended Sources. Soft Photons......Page 284 3-12 Interaction Skeleton. Scattering Cross Sections......Page 296 3-13 Spin 1/2 Processes......Page 319 3-14 Sources as Scatterers......Page 339 3-15 H-Particles......Page 363 3-16 Instability and Multiparticle Exchange......Page 379 3-17 The Gravitational Field......Page 397 Appendix: How to Read Volume I......Page 426 A......Page 428 C......Page 429 D......Page 431 E......Page 432 F......Page 433 G......Page 434 J......Page 435 M......Page 436 P......Page 437 S......Page 439 T......Page 443 W......Page 444 This volume is almost exclusively concerned with quantum electrodynamics. The topics discussed range from nomalous magnetic moments and vacuum polarization to the energy level displacements in hydrogenic atoms. 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

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.

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. This volume presents techniques that emphasize the unity of high-energy particle physics with electrodynamics, gravitational theory, and many-particle co-operative phenomena. It offers a theory intermediate in position between operator field theory and S-matrix theory. V.1 Particles; Sources; Fields. -- V. 2. Electrodynamics I.; Electrodynamics Ii. -- V. 3. Electrodynamics Iii.; Partial Symmetry. [by] Julian Schwinger.