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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2015 iii Paper 47 3 a ii Solution by
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There are two diagrams: the -channel Z boson exchange from the weak neutral current, and a crossed -channel W boson exchange from the weak charged current. The charged-current vertices pair the incoming neutrino with the outgoing electron and the incoming electron with the outgoing neutrino . The exchanged momentum has square . With charge flow from the first vertex to the second, the exchanged boson is . The corresponding panels show both topologies; no photon or Higgs diagram survives the stated neutrino assumptions.
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