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Generating Feynman Diagrams and Amplitudes with FeynArts 3
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 20 Dec 2000 · 12 references
Pith's verdict: A solid, honest program paper for a tool people actually use; the one real mismatch is the abstract's SUSY claim against a body that ships no SUSY example.
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The paper
The paper claims
FeynArts 3 generates Feynman diagrams at three levels of field detail, inserts model-allowed particles into them, and emits both publication-quality LaTeX or PostScript figures and symbolic amplitudes.
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Core claim
FeynArts 3 generates, for a requested number of loops and external legs, the set of distinct Feynman topologies, inserts model-allowed fields into them at three levels of detail, and applies the Feynman rules to produce symbolic amplitudes, with publication-quality PostScript or LaTeX output for the diagrams (abstract:s1, Sections 2 and 3.1 to 3.5). If correct, a user can go from a process specification to a full one-loop 2 to 2 amplitude set in about a minute of compute, with no hand drawing and no hand transcription of vertices.
Load-bearing premise
That the diagram set produced by InsertFields is exactly the set the model allows. The insertion routine works by intersecting lookup tables built at model-initialization time from the user's model file (Section 3.3), and the paper reports no cross-check of diagram counts, symmetry factors, or amplitudes against an independent generator such as QGRAF [4] or GRACE [5], which it names as comparable. Any error in the model file or in the lookup-table construction propagates silently into every downstream amplitude, and the paper's only worked example, Z to b bbar, is not compared to a published result.
Original abstract
This paper describes the Mathematica package FeynArts used for the generation and visualization of Feynman diagrams and amplitudes. The main features of version 3 are: generation of diagrams at three levels, user-definable model files, support for supersymmetric models, and publication-quality Feynman diagrams in PostScript or LaTeX.
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The abstract, sentence by sentence
This paper describes the Mathematica package FeynArts used for the generation and visualization of Feynman diagrams and amplitudes. The main features of version 3 are: generation of diagrams at three levels, user-definable model files, support for supersymmetric models, and publication-quality Feynman diagrams in PostScript or LaTeX.
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| s0 | This paper describes the Mathematica package FeynArts used for the generation and visualization of Feynman diagrams and amplitudes. | contribution 0.95 | 0.53 | 0.17 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | The main features of version 3 are: generation of diagrams at three levels, user-definable model files, support for supersymmetric models, and publication-quality Feynman diagrams in PostScript or LaTeX. | contribution 0.90 | 0.56 | 0.14 | asserted 1.00 |
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