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Past exam of the advanced quantum field theory course of the University of Oxford 2022 1 ii Solution by
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Use Minkowski metric and the convention . Put , , andThe Feynman i-epsilon prescription is understood in subsequent denominators. Contracting the spinor indices around the fermion loop gives the traceHere is Feynman slash notation. The closed fermion loop sign is , the three interaction vertices contribute , and the three Dirac propagators contribute . Their product, including the color charge trace, is . Thus one ordering hasMultiplying by the incoming polarization vectors and adding the exchanged Feynman diagram givesThe displayed four-dimensional Feynman integral is formal until regularized; subsequent manipulations use dimensional regularization, which permits the required loop momentum shifts.
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