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Past exam of the theoretical physics major option course of the University of Oxford 2018 3 b ii Solution by
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All daughter particles are massless, so the parent mass supplies the only kinematic scale at tree level. Each vertex has two derivatives, making its scattering amplitude scale as . For the four- vertex, symmetrizing over the derivative-bearing legs yields a sum of pairwise four-momentum products, which is proportional to by four-momentum conservation.
For massless daughters, the Lorentz invariance Lorentz-invariant phase-space measure scales as : each contributes two powers and the four-dimensional Dirac delta removes four powers. Including the parent factor gives . ThusThe unspecified factors are dimensionless angular integrals and identical-particle factors. Each result has mass dimension one, as a decay width must in natural units.
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