The formal theory of scattering
TL;DR: In this article, the theory of scattering is developed from first principles with strict attention to the question of the preparation of the state vector of the system appropriate to a description of scattering, and the connection between the present formulation and the more conventional interaction representation and S matrix presentations is traced.
Abstract: The theory of scattering is developed from first principles with strict attention to the question of the preparation of the state vector of the system appropriate to a description of scattering. The connection between the present formulation and the more conventional interaction representation and S matrix presentations is traced. The wave matrix of Moller is introduced and the existence of bound states is discussed in connection with it. A number of applications to rather involved processes are discussed. Finally, the problem of self-energies in field-theoretic scattering calculations is treated.
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