 2020 (source code)

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Source paper: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/oxford_physics_past_papers_2/response/2340696/attach/8/Physics%20Papers%202019.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

Official standalone paper: https://mmathphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/mmathphys/documents/media/aqft_2020.pdf

The annual bundle's filename says 2019, but this paper's cover says Trinity Term 2020 and identifies A15272W1. These are solutions to that 2020 paper. Use <natural units>, the <Minkowski metric> $g=\operatorname{diag}(1,-1,-1,-1)$ and the <Feynman i-epsilon prescription>. Write $\not p=\gamma^\mu p_\mu$. In question 1, $D=4-\epsilon$, $e_D=\mu^{\epsilon/2}e$, and $\mu$ is the <renormalization scale>; keeping the dimensionful coupling $e_D$ explicit prevents a factor-of-two ambiguity in the <ultraviolet pole>. In question 2(a), the factors of $i$ in the stated <generating functional> fix the normalization of its kernels, as explained in the solution.

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{title=Vertex corrections, quark Compton scattering and nonlinear-gauge photon scattering}
{description=Original <Feynman diagrams>. Solid arrows indicate <fermion flow>; wavy lines denote <photons>, and curly lines denote <gluons>. The upper row contains the single <QED> <one-particle-irreducible Feynman diagram> and the two <QCD> <one-particle-irreducible Feynman diagrams>. The middle row gives the two <tree-level Feynman diagrams> for <Compton scattering>. The bottom row gives the three exchange channels and the contact contribution to <light-by-light scattering> in <nonlinear Abelian gauge fixing>. The four lower external labels use all-incoming <four-momenta>. Crossings without dots are not <Feynman vertices>.}

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