Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-advanced-quantum-field-theory-for-particle-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2016/1/a/iii/solution

Multiply the supplied Feynman gauge propagators before reducing the numerator. Their two factors and the source's Clifford algebra imply
For example, contracting the numerator before the propagator factors gives ; the extra minus from reverses both signs.
Use a Feynman parameter on the massive denominator and shift . The combined denominator is
The term odd in integrates to zero in dimensional regularization. The pole can be evaluated away from on-shell infrared singularities; its local ultraviolet coefficient is independent of . With the source's master integral,
Terms proportional to multiply the pole into a finite term, so they do not change this result. The counterterm kernel from 1ai is . Cancelling therefore gives
The distinction between mass definitions matters. Since ,
Equivalently the mass-dependent part of the counterterm density is , because its definition includes the explicit minus sign in . In the alternative convention , replace every here by . These are ultraviolet minimal-subtraction poles, not the finite on-shell mass correction. The Ward identity also fixes ; the photon coefficient requires its own two-point function and is not obtained from this graph.

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