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