2-LOOP QED VERTEX CORRECTION FROM VIRTUAL HEAVY FERMIONS

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KNIEHL, BA
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[1] Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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10.1016/0370-2693(90)90474-K
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P1 [天文学];
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The O(α2) contribution of a virtual massive fermion to the electromagnetic vertex of a light fermion is calculated in perturbative QED for arbitrary external momentum transfer s. Besides the exact analytic result also the small-s and high-s expansions are presented. Virtual fermions with masses m≫ |s| decouple from the effective interaction of light fermions and photons. © 1990.
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