The Lamb Shift in Dimensional Regularization

Abstract

We present a simple derivation of the Lamb shift using effective field theory techniques and dimensional regularisation.

11 pages, LaTeX, two eps files. Typos corrected. References corrected. To be published in Phys. Lett. B

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