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Past exam of the symmetry and relativity course of the University of Oxford 2019 4 b Solution by
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Restoring units, the decaying Yukawa potential is with range . For ,The geometric factor belongs in the potential ratio; the exponential alone is the additional suppression relative to massless exchange. Using givesThe following are ratios of potential magnitudes to the magnitude at , with the same coupling held fixed:
| Mediator | ||
|---|---|---|
| Massless scalar |
For example, the pion's nuclear exponential factor is , whereas the Higgs nuclear exponent is about . The huge atomic suppressions are most reliably reported through logarithms, not through floating-point exponentiation that silently underflows to zero. These are potential energy ratios, not force ratios or absolute comparisons of different interaction strengths.
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