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.
Edit and compile if you like:
% 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}
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