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At the end of the 1920s, quantum electrodynamics in its present form was known. In the following years several scattering processes were calculated in lowest-order perturbation theory.
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The classical self-energy diverges like 1/a as the radius a of the sphere goes to zero whereas in QED the self-energy diverges “only” logarithmically.
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Ecker, G. (2019). The Crisis of Quantum Field Theory. In: Particles, Fields, Quanta. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14479-1_6
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