List of Feynman diagrams

This is a list of common Feynman diagrams. His first published diagram appeared in Physical Review in 1949.[1] Unless otherwise specified, the shown diagrams can assumed to be the leading order representation of the interaction.

Standard model diagrams

Name or phenomenon Interaction Type Description Diagram
Beta decay and Free neutron decay Decay In beta decay, a beta particle is emitted from an atomic nucleus, and the nucleus gains a proton in place of the neutron. In free neutron decay, a neutron not bound to a nucleus (i.e. free) decays with the same process and products.
Double beta decay Decay Two beta decays occurring simultaneously. While this can be considered two independent interactions, some nuclides are observed to decay in this way due to energetic reasons.
Compton scattering Scattering scattering of a photon by a charged particle. Here shown scattering with an electron. There are two channels of the leading order interaction. s-channel is shown above, and u-channel below.
Pair production and annihilation Other In the Stückelberg–Feynman interpretation, pair annihilation is the same process as pair production. Here it is shown as occurring with an electron, but similar diagrams may be considered with other particles such as muons and protons.
Møller scattering Scattering electron-electron scattering
Bhabha scattering Scattering electron-positron scattering
Penguin diagram Other a quark changes flavor via a W or Z loop
Tadpole diagram Other One loop diagram with one external leg
Self-interaction or oyster diagram Other An electron emits and reabsorbs a photon
Box diagram Other The box diagram for kaon oscillations
Scattering Photon-photon scattering
Higgs boson production Other Via gluons and top quarks
Other Via quarks and W or Z bosons
Primakoff effect Other production of neutral pseudoscalar mesons by photons interacting with an atomic nucleus
Delbrück scattering Scattering deflection of high-energy photons in the Coulomb field of nuclei
Deep inelastic scattering Scattering a lepton is deflected by a virtual photon emitted by a quark from the hadron
Chiral anomaly Other Anomaly-induced neutral pion decay

Speculative or hypothetical diagrams

Name or phenomenon Description Diagram
Flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) Hypothetical interactions that change the flavor of a fermion without altering its electric charge, that could happen in the standard model or beyond.
Quad cancellations One of the many cancellations to the quadratic divergence to squared mass of the Higgs boson which occurs in the MSSM.
Neutrino-less double beta decay If neutrinos are Majorana fermions (that is, their own antiparticle), Neutrino-less double beta decay is possible. Several experiments are searching for this.

References

  1. ^ Wilczek, Frank (July 5, 2016). "How Feynman Diagrams Almost Saved Space". Quanta magazine. Retrieved January 1, 2025.