Feynman Diagrams for Beginners unizg.hr（为初学者unizg.hr费曼图）.pdf

Feynman Diagrams for Beginners ˇ Krešimir Kumericki 6 1 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia 0 2 b e F Abstract 8 We give a short introduction to Feynman diagrams, with many exer- ] cises. Text is targeted at students who had little or no prior exposure to h quantum field theory. We present condensed description of single-particle p- Dirac equation, free quantum fields and construction of Feynman amplitude d using Feynman diagrams. As an example, we give a detailed calculation of e . cross-section for annihilation of electron and positron into a muon pair. We s c also show how such calculations are done with the aid of computer. i s y h Contents p [ 1 Natural units 2 1 v 2 2 Single-particle Dirac equation 4 8 1 2.1 The Dirac equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4 2.2 The adjoint Dirac equation and the Dirac current . . . . . . . . . 6 0. 2.3 Free-particle solutions of the Dirac equation . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2 0 6 3 Free quantum fields 9 1 3.1 Spin 0: scalar field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 : v 3.2 Spin 1/2: the Dirac field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 i X 3.3 Spin 1: vector field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 r a 4 Golden rules for decays and scatterings 11 5 Feynman diagrams