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- Z and photon have same quantum numbers, how are their pole structures of the (interacting) propagator related?
If I look at the photon propagator <A_mu (x) A^nu(0) > in momentum space, as I understand it I am to compute this by summing up all the self-energy diagrams of the photon, which look like:
photon -> stuff -> photon
In particular, since the photon shares the same quantum numbers as the Z, you get a collection of diagrams that are:
photon -> stuff -> Z -> stuff -> Z -> stuff -> photon
(where the stuff connecting photon with Z could be a fermion loop for example). In this case, it would seem that the pole structure of the Z is inherted by the photon propagator? In particular, if there is some complex momenta value at which the Z boson has a pole, then the photon propagator should also have the same pole? Is this true?
[I may have messed something very basic up, I am still quite bad at basic QFT]
photon -> stuff -> photon
In particular, since the photon shares the same quantum numbers as the Z, you get a collection of diagrams that are:
photon -> stuff -> Z -> stuff -> Z -> stuff -> photon
(where the stuff connecting photon with Z could be a fermion loop for example). In this case, it would seem that the pole structure of the Z is inherted by the photon propagator? In particular, if there is some complex momenta value at which the Z boson has a pole, then the photon propagator should also have the same pole? Is this true?
[I may have messed something very basic up, I am still quite bad at basic QFT]