Theories in Particle Physics

HW12

Please hand in your answers by Thursday 17.00 to Tuomas Tenkanen. His mailbox is next to
A318 (2d column, bottom row).

1. Non-Abelian gauge theories involve ghosts. These only appear in loops and make the
calculations gauge invariant. Using the f -tensor identities from Section 15.4 and the Feynman
rules in Fig.16.5, justify the expressions 16.66 and 16.67 in Peskin and Schroeder. These show
the ghost contribution to the gauge field self-energy. (You may use the Feynman integrals from
Appendix A.4.)