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Past exam of the particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2016 6 2 Solution by
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The Dirac adjoint is . Because is Hermitian and anticommutes with ,Anticommutation with then givesThus the left-chiral charged current can be written with its chiral projector acting on either external Dirac spinor. More precisely, , since the opposite projection vanishes. The Dirac adjoint reverses the matrix projector, ; overlooking this reversal would give a wrong zero. The source uses , so no additional factor of two is introduced when moving that entire factor.
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