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Past exam of the advanced quantum field theory for particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2020 1 iii Solution by
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There is one one-particle-irreducible Feynman diagram: an internal photon joins two points of the open fermion line, with the external photon attached to that line between them. It is the upper-left panel of the figure. Route internal photon four-momentum from the incoming side to the outgoing side; the adjacent internal fermion four-momenta are and . The symmetry factor is one.
The vertex renormalization counterterm is an additional local contribution when forming the renormalized Feynman vertex. External-leg self-energy insertions belong to the complete three-point correlation function, rather than this amputated one-particle-irreducible Feynman diagram.
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