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Past exam of the advanced quantum field theory for particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2020 2 b ii Solution by
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Put , , , and suppress the common colour factor . Define by the product of Feynman rules. With massless external Dirac spinors the two graphs giveThe massless Dirac equation gives and . ThusBy four-momentum conservation, , soThe two terms cancel:This is the Ward identity for the incoming photon; replacing its photon polarization vector by its four-momentum produces zero. The outgoing photon obeys the analogous identity. Each exchange graph separately fails this test, so the cancellation requires their sum. Consequently the physical scattering amplitude is invariant under .
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