Intuition for divergences in sunset diagram

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Higgsy

What is the intuition behind divergences for the sunset diagram? I know that there is quadratic divergence by why no quartic divergence or higher?

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You have two loops and three propagators. Counting the powers of momentum in those gives you a naive estimate of the degree of divegence.

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