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Compton Scattering Sum Rules for Massive Vector Bosons

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Contents<br />

3.4 Optical Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />

3.5 Derivation of Forward Dispersion Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />

4 Testing the <strong>Sum</strong> <strong>Rules</strong> in QFT 39<br />

4.1 QFT: Yang-Mills Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />

4.1.1 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />

4.1.2 Yang-Mills Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41<br />

4.1.3 Derivation of the Yang-Mills Lagrangian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />

4.1.4 Vertex <strong>for</strong> W − W Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />

4.2 Gauge Invariance: Ward-Takahashi Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44<br />

4.3 Tree-Level Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45<br />

5 Quantum One-Loop Corrections: Symmetry of the Theory 49<br />

5.1 Derivative GDH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />

5.2 Gauge Invariance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />

5.3 Vertex Correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br />

5.4 Yang-Mills Tadpole Contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57<br />

5.5 Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59<br />

6 Conclusion and Outlook 63<br />

A Feynman <strong>Rules</strong> 65<br />

A.1 Feynman Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

A.2 Plane Wave Expansions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

A.2.1 <strong>Massive</strong> Spin-1 Particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

A.2.2 Photon Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68<br />

B Loop Integration 71<br />

B.1 Tensor Loop Integrals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />

B.2 Feynman-Schwinger Parametrization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74<br />

C Diagrams 75<br />

C.1 Tree-level Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />

C.2 Vertex Correction Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75<br />

C.3 Momentum Shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />

Bibliography 79<br />

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