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Past exam of the theoretical physics major option course of the University of Oxford 2022 4 g Solution by
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Set , so . Expanding the minimally coupled Lagrangian density givesThus there is a derivative cubic interaction vertex of order , and a quartic interaction vertex of order . There is no pure contact term in this minimal coupling theory, nor an Abelian three-photon interaction vertex.
Cubic and quartic charged-vector vertices, and the two photon-exchange channels for identical charged vector bosons
. Details. The straight arrowed lines in the original schematic denote charged massive vector bosons; the wavy lines denote photons. For two identical positively charged vector bosons, the leading scattering amplitude has the order- -channel photon-exchange Feynman diagram, together with its -channel interchange required by identical bosons. A quartic interaction vertex cannot directly attach four external massive vector bosons. For a particle-antiparticle incoming pair, the leading channels instead are -channel exchange and -channel photon annihilation. The shown arrows track charge flow; an outgoing charged particle corresponds to the conjugate field at a vertex.
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