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The 27 pages that link to Feynman diagram, each with the reason it gives.

• Quantum field theoryRelated: Diagrams organize calculations of scattering amplitudes and interaction processes.

• Quantum electrodynamicsRelated: Diagrams organize QED calculations as sums over possible interaction histories.

• Weak interactionRelated: Weak processes are calculated by drawing vertices joined by W or Z boson lines.

• Richard FeynmanBroader topic: They turn Feynman’s perturbative calculations into a compact visual language.

• Particle physicsRelated: These diagrams organize calculations of collision and decay probabilities.

• Path integral formulationBroader topic: Expanding field path integrals produces the terms represented by these diagrams.

• Baryon numberRelated: Interaction vertices make it possible to check whether a reaction conserves baryon number.

• Elementary particleRelated: These diagrams organize calculations of elementary-particle interactions.

• Anomalous magnetic dipole momentRelated: Diagrams organize the successive interaction corrections calculated for the anomaly.

• Vacuum polarizationRelated: A closed charged-particle loop depicts the leading vacuum-polarization contribution.

• Particle decayRelated: Decay diagrams represent the initial particle and the interaction producing its outgoing particles.

• Scattering amplitudeRelated: Summing diagram contributions computes amplitudes for specified scattering processes.

• WorldlineRelated: Its lines can represent particle propagation through spacetime, though they are not always literal paths.

• Creation and annihilation operatorsRelated: External lines and vertices encode particle creation, annihilation, and interactions.

• Freeman DysonRelated: Dyson’s analysis gave these diagrams a systematic role in quantum-field calculations.

• Sin-Itiro TomonagaRelated: Diagrams provide a complementary way to calculate the same interaction processes.

• Feynman rulesNarrower topic: The rules assign expressions to its lines and vertices.

• Virtual particleNarrower topic: Its internal lines represent virtual-particle propagators.

• Gerard ’t HooftRelated: His proof relied on organizing gauge-theory calculations through perturbative methods.

• The Feynman Lectures on PhysicsRelated: The book introduces these diagrams as a tool for understanding particle interactions and quantum electrodynamics.

• Field and string theory models and techniquesBroader topic: They organize interaction calculations as expansions in coupling strengths.

• Force carrierRelated: Internal lines depict exchanged particles in calculations of interactions.

• Furry's theoremNarrower topic: The theorem cancels selected closed-loop diagrams when their orientations are paired.

• History of subatomic physicsRelated: Diagrams made complex particle-interaction calculations more tractable.

• Many-body techniquesBroader topic: Diagrams organize the contributions generated by many-body perturbation theory.

• Martinus J. G. VeltmanRelated: Veltman developed computational methods for organizing the diagrams used in electroweak calculations.

• Shin'ichirō TomonagaCompared with: They became a different practical language for QED calculations than Tomonaga’s operator-based approach.