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Past exam of the advanced quantum field theory for particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2018 3 a v Solution by
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Using , expand the potential around the chosen vacuum:The linear term vanishes at the minimum. With canonical real-field kinetic terms, comparison with givesThe massive radial scalar changes the magnitude of the vacuum field; the massless Goldstone boson changes its orientation. The symmetry is global here, so no gauge field eats that mode.
The genuinely new scalar cubic interactions are . Including identical-field factorials, their Feynman vertex factors areThe quartic interactions remain , with respective vertex factors . The shifted Yukawa terms from iv give vertex and vertex . These Yukawa structures were present before the shift; the new fermion bilinear is the mass term, not an additional independent interaction coupling. There are no derivative interactions from the linear Cartesian field shift.
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