What are the different decay processes shown in this Feynman diagram?

In summary, the leading-order Feynman diagram for the decay process of a Higgs boson into an electron-positron pair is described by the interaction vertex in the diagram with the Lagrangian term ##-y_{e}\bar{\psi}_{e}h\psi_{e}##. Other decay processes of the Higgs boson are possible depending on the Lagrangian used, but they will be suppressed due to containing more vertices and requiring the sum of the outgoing particle masses to be smaller than the Higgs boson mass.
  • #36
Got it!

So, you have two tree-level Feynman diagrams for

$$h \rightarrow e^{+} + e^{-} + e^{+} + e^{-} $$

https://i.imgsafe.org/79814d363d.jpg

and four tree-level Feynman diagrams for

$$h \rightarrow e^{+} + e^{-} + \mu^{+} + \mu^{-}$$

https://i.imgsafe.org/7981a81e80.jpg

https://i.imgsafe.org/79820c6447.jpg,

right?
 
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  • #37
wouldnt that work? [itex] h \rightarrow hh \rightarrow 2l 2l'[/itex]?
Also these are not tree diagrams...
 
  • #38
ChrisVer said:
wouldnt that work? [itex] h \rightarrow hh \rightarrow 2l 2l'[/itex]?
Also these are not tree diagrams...

Which ones are not tree-level Feynman diagrams?
 
  • #39
failexam said:
Which ones are not tree-level Feynman diagrams?
that was a conceptual mistake...
 
  • #40
Right, so all of the diagrams that I posted are tree-level diagrams, right?
 

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