Berestetskii, V. B. <br/><br/>
Quantum Electrodynamics / 
by V.B. Berestetski, E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevski ; translated from the Russian by J.B. Sykes and J.S. Bell. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - Oxford :  Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann,  1982. 
 - xv, 652 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index  Previous ed.: published in 2v. as Relativistic quantum theory. 1971-1974  Translation of: Kvantovai︠a︡ ėlektrodinamika. 
<br/><br/>Prefaces; Introduction; Photons; Bosons; Fermions; Particles in an external field; Radiation; Scattering of radiation; Invariant perturbation theory; Interaction of electrons; Radiative corrections; Electrodynamics of hadrons; Index. 
<br/><br/> Several significant additions have been made to the second edition, including the operator method of calculating the bremsstrahlung cross-section, the calcualtion of the probabilities of photon-induced pair production and photon decay in a magnetic field, the asymptotic form of the scattering amplitudes at high energies, inelastic scattering of electrons by hadrons, and the transformation of electron-positron pairs into hadrons. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0750633719 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Quantum field theory.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC680  / .B42 1980