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Any other good sources on the Lamb shift other than Wikipedia?
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Seems likely
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Yea, I've been lookkng through lots. But can't find reliable ones. I tought maybe one of you guys would know onephinds said:
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I'd recommend Weinberg's Quantum Theory of Fields, vol. 1, Sec. 14 for a modern treatment.
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Actually, it doesn't.raracon said:
What do you want that's not there? Otherwise it will turn into us guessing and you saying "no, that's not it".
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Well I am searching for a source, where the Lamb shift is explained in a rather short manner (not going into too much detail).Vanadium 50 said:
Other than that I would like to have a better structure in my head, like having a good definition of the Lamb shift and what does it consist of (self energy etc.)
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Yeah, that is why I am searching for stuff not related to the Wikipedia article. :)berkeman said:
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OK, now we're getting somewhere. You want something that is:raracon said:
- Shorter than the Wikipedia article.
- Requires less background than the Wikipedia article.
- More complete than the Wikipedia article.