1 Propagators and Scattering Theory
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Nonrelativistic Propagator
1.3 Green's Function and Propagator
1.4 An Integral Equation for
1.5 Application to Scattering Problems
1.6 The Unitarity of the S Matrix
1.7 Symmetry Properties of the S Matrix
1.8 The Green's Function in Momentum Representation
1.9 Another Look at the Green's Function
1.10 Biographical Notes
2 The Propagators for Electrons and Positrons
3 Quantum-Electrodynamical Processes
3.1 Coulomb Scattering of Electrons
3.2 Scattering of an Electron off a Free Proton: The Effect of Recoil
3.3 Scattering of Identical Fermions
3.4 Electron-Positron Scattering
3.5 Scattering of Polarized Dirac Particles
3.6 Bremsstrahlung
3.7 Compton Scattering - The Klein-Nishina Formula
3.8 Annihilation of Particle and Antiparticle
3.9 Biographical Notes
4 Summary: The Feynman Rules of QED
4.1 The Feynman Rules of QED in Momentum Space
4.2 The Photon Propagator in Different Gauges
4.3 Biographical Notes
5 The Scattering Matrix in Higher Orders
5.1 Electron-Positron Scattering in Fourth Order
5.2 Vacuum Polarization
5.3 Self-Energy of the Electron
5.4 The Vertex Correction
5.5 Biographical Notes
6 Two-Particle Systems
6.1 The Bethe-Salpeter Equation
6.2 Biographical Notes
7 Quantum Electrodynamics of Strong Fields
7.1 Strong Fields in Atoms
7.2 Strong Fields in Heavy Ion Collisions
7.3 The Effective Lagrangian of the Electromagnetic Field
7.4 Biographical Notes
8 Quantum Electrodynamics of Spinless Bosons
8.1 The Klein-Gordon Equation
8.2 The Feynman Propagator for Scalar Particles
8.3 The Scattering of Spin-0 Bosons
8.4 The Feynman Rules of Scalar Electrodynamics
Appendix
Subject Index
