QED EFFECTS IN HIGH-Z ATOMS; THREE-BODY POTENTIALS.

Title: QED EFFECTS IN HIGH-Z ATOMS; THREE-BODY POTENTIALS.
Identifier: AAI8401968
identifier: 8401968
Creator: ZYGELMAN, BERNARD.
Contributor: Marvin H. Mittleman
Date: 1983
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Physics, Atomic
Abstract: Electromagnetic three-body potentials were first studied by Primakoff and Holstein. Later, Chamugan and Schweber rederived these potentials and pointed out that they might be important in highly relativistic systems, however, their formulation was basically nonrelativistic. Mittleman, in a series of papers, constructed configuration space equations that included three-body potentials. His derivation started from first principles i.e. QED, and the resulting three-body potentials are more general than the Primakoff-Holstein potentials. In this thesis we calculate the contribution to the binding energy of a simple high-Z ion from the three-body potentials. In addition, we study the nature and structure of these potentials in greater detail. Some ambiguities that arise when the transition from Fock to configuration space is made are studied in detail.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Physics