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Past exam of the quantum field theory course of the University of Oxford 2025 2 c i Solution by
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Let be the incoming and the outgoing four-momenta, and set , , , the Mandelstam variables. The only connected tree-level Feynman diagram is the -channel exchange of , with Noether charge . The two incoming light particles attach to , and the two outgoing light particles to its conjugate. There is no four-light contact Feynman vertex, nor a charge-allowed or exchange with these external labels.
Define the invariant scattering amplitude by . ThenThe Feynman vertices already contain the identical-leg combinatorics. No extra factor of two multiplies this invariant scattering amplitude; the distinct identical final-state symmetry factor enters a cross section integral.
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