Tuesday, March 27, 2018

particle physics - Breit-Wigner vs propagator?


Consider the two Feynman diagrams below:


Feynman diagrams, concerning the passage of a z-boson and a resonance.


I know for the second that we should use the Breit-wigner curve, but what about the first? If we go about using the propagator: \[\frac{1}{\tilde q^2-m_z^2c^2}\text{, (+ - - -) signature}\] then we a singularity when $\tilde q^2=m_z^2c^2$ which is subverted when the Breit-Wigner curve is used. Thus my question is as follows: When is it appropriate to use the propagator as given above and when to use the Breit-Wigner curve.




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