Solution

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Both -channel Z boson exchange and -channel annihilation occur. Replacing the incident neutrino by an antineutrino interchanges the two chiral angular weights. In the same contact-interaction regime,
At the factor is , between parts (i) and (ii). The comparison is energy dependent outside this regime: near , the annihilation channel has a W boson resonance, and the low-energy formula is inapplicable.

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