Solution

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The result grows linearly with the squared centre-of-momentum energy, . This growth eventually violates partial-wave unitarity and signals the breakdown of the pointlike Fermi interaction. At energies comparable to or , the full gauge-boson propagators must replace the contact interaction; the renormalizable electroweak theory then softens the high-energy behavior.

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