I saw this Feynman diagram in Edward Tufte’s book Beautiful evidence (you can also find it in this thread). It was relatively easy to recreate using trees and decorations.
Update: Rewritten using PGF 2.0 features.
% Feynman diagram
% Requires PGF >= 2.0
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{trees}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
% Define styles for the different kind of edges in a Feynman diagram
\tikzset{
photon/.style={decorate, decoration={snake}, draw=red},
electron/.style={draw=blue, postaction={decorate},
decoration={markings,mark=at position .55 with {\arrow[draw=blue]{>}}}},
gluon/.style={decorate, draw=magenta,
decoration={coil,amplitude=4pt, segment length=5pt}}
}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
thick,
% Set the overall layout of the tree
level/.style={level distance=1.5cm},
level 2/.style={sibling distance=2.6cm},
level 3/.style={sibling distance=2cm}
]
\coordinate
child[grow=left]{
child {
node {$g$}
% The 'edge from parent' is actually not needed because it is
% implicitly added.
edge from parent [gluon]
}
child {
node {$g$}
edge from parent [gluon]
}
edge from parent [gluon] node [above=3pt] {$g$}
}
% I have to insert a dummy child to get the tree to grow
% correctly to the right.
child[grow=right, level distance=0pt] {
child {
child {
child {
node {$\bar{d}$}
edge from parent [electron]
}
child {
node {$u$}
edge from parent [electron]
}
edge from parent [photon]
}
child {
node {$b$}
edge from parent [electron]
}
edge from parent [electron]
node [below] {$t$}
}
child {
child {
node {$\bar{b}$}
edge from parent [electron]
}
child {
child {
node {$\bar{v}$}
edge from parent [electron]
}
child {
node {$e^{-}$}
edge from parent [electron]
}
edge from parent [photon]
}
edge from parent [electron]
node [above] {$\bar{t}$}
}
};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Comments
The arrows on tbar and bbar should be reversed.
Actually, all of the antifermion arrows need to be reversed!
I know very little about Feynman diagrams, so you are probably right. The diagram is based on a diagram in Edward Tufte’s book Beautiful evidence. If my version is wrong then the original is wrong as well.
If the anti-fermion arrows are reversed, should the particle then not be called a tbar and bbar and just t and b. Is it not that a t particle is a tbar travelling backwards in time, and so vice versa. It depends if the diagram is showing progress through space or through time.
is there an example about loop diagrams (fermion, fermion-boson, gluions)
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