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QED is the prime example for the application of QFT to elementary particle physics. From a pragmatic point of view the construction of QED is solved since the works of Tomonaga, Schwinger, Feynman and Dyson in the middle of the last century: The predictions (e.g., on the magnetic moment of the electron), obtained by computing the lowest orders of the perturbation series, are in perfect agreement with experiment.
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Dütsch, M. (2019). Quantum Electrodynamics. In: From Classical Field Theory to Perturbative Quantum Field Theory. Progress in Mathematical Physics, vol 74. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04738-2_5
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