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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 301 2 Solution by
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The interaction gives one cubic vertex joining a real-scalar line to a particle-antiparticle pair of either complex scalar species. The second-order term of the Dyson series isWick theorem contracts the incoming pair at one vertex, the outgoing pair at the other, and the two fields with each other. The two assignments of cancel the factor . Thus there is one connected tree-level Feynman diagram, the -channel exchangeWith standard relativistic external-state normalization,up to the physically irrelevant common sign convention for .
In the center-of-momentum frame, and , soPair creation is kinematically possible exactly when . The threshold incident momentum is therefore
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