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Gingerbread [Feyn]Men

03Feb08

To my grocery-shopping delight, I discovered some do-it-yourself gingerbread people at Tesco last week. For £1.50, one gets a set of five blank cookies, two tubes of frosting, and some candies. I replaced the candies with Reese’s pieces, the only American confectionary to ever impress my English flatmates. (A recent care-package of peanut butter cups really made them happy.)

I couldn’t help myself from bringing gingerbread [feyn]men to lunch this past week, here’s the latest example:

I was a bit sloppy with indices, but the top diagram is a higgs-production channel while the bototm diagram is the standard model background. Here are the diagrams (without labels):

The initial states are q, \bar q, the final states are b, \bar b, \mu, \nu_\mu. As an exercise one can fill in the labels.


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  1. 1 robert on February 4, 2008 said:

    Is gingerbread going to join penguin in the lexicon of hep-th whimsy?

  2. 2 Nick Ernst on February 4, 2008 said:

    Ah, excellent! Here in Santa Cruz, the Society of Physics Students took up celebrating Feynman’s birthday last year by making Feynman diagram cupcakes. Gingerbread men look more fit for the job!

  3. 3 evankeane on February 5, 2008 said:

    flip i will be looking forward to when you mention “gingerbread diagram” in one of your papers …


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