Off-Shell Propagator Boundary

ID: low_temp.qft.virtual_particle_propagator_boundary

Represents virtual particles as off-shell internal lines in perturbative QFT calculations, not directly observed short-lived beads.

Status: canonical_reference

Uncertainty

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Sources

• CERN-QED-lecture-virtual-particles
• https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.35.1

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