The main tool for studying experimentally the properties of elementary particles are scattering processes performed in particle accelerators. Physicists measure cross sections and the mathematical theory has to develop methods for computing cross sections.
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(2009). A Glance at General Scattering Theory. In: Quantum Field Theory II: Quantum Electrodynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85377-0_10
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