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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 iii Paper 50 2 d Solution by
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Use the Feynman vertex for the scalar Yukawa coupling, the internal scalar propagator , incoming factors and outgoing Dirac adjoints . Define as the coefficient in the connected S-matrix element after removing its overall momentum-conserving Dirac delta function. A direct pairing contributesThe crossed pairing interchanges the identical outgoing fermions and therefore has a relative fermionic sign of minus. With and , the result isIt changes sign under exchange of the two outgoing momenta and spin labels, as required for identical fermions. No fermion spin sum or identical-particle phase-space factor belongs in this amplitude; those enter a relativistic scattering cross-section calculation.
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