Muon-antimuon annihilation into two photons

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Muon-antimuon annihilation into two photons by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
At tree level this QED process has two internal muon exchange diagrams, differing by the order of the two outgoing photon vertices. Their propagator momenta are and for incoming muon momentum . The amplitude begins at order and obeys the two-photon fermion Ward identity. Identical final photons require the usual factorial correction when integration over the full final-state Lorentz-invariant phase space would otherwise count them twice.

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