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Past exam of the gauge field theory course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 1 3 e Solution by
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The operator has mass dimension , so . It is not power-counting renormalizable. Hermiticity may require a suitable conjugate or a symmetrized derivative, and electromagnetic gauge invariance would require a further consistent completion; neither repair changes its engineering dimension. Such derivative interactions can occur in an effective field theory, subject to its symmetries and operator redundancies.
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