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Where can I find a database or tables with the precisions/contributions that each Feynman diagram term adds to most common and famous numerical estimations for the standard model of particles (like $g$-factor and others)?

For example, so far I was only able to found the numerical value of the three first Feynman diagrams for the $g$-factor and the numerical contribution of each of these three diagrams. But sadly nothing else.

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    $\begingroup$ How about Tables I and II of this paper? There are many other quantities to be used for precision tests of QED (bound electron $g$-factor, Lamb shift, hyperfine splitting, ionization energy, etc.), but you should be more specific about what you are interested in, because these are not discussed in one single source. $\endgroup$ Commented Nov 9 at 9:52
  • $\begingroup$ @dennismoore94 Yes that's typically the kind of tables i'm looking. With the difference that i'm looking for EVERYTHING that has been done this last 50 or 70 years in QFT (like Lamb Shift, hyperfine splitting, etc.) $\endgroup$ Commented Nov 9 at 11:16
  • $\begingroup$ I changed the title, since your question is unrelated to path integrals; please revise (if you don't like the proposed title, feel free to change it, but please, stick to the actual contents of the question). $\endgroup$ Commented Nov 9 at 15:41

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As a general source, you could look at the CODATA22 review:

Mohr, Newell, Taylor, Tiesinga: CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants: 2022

Below, I try to give some more specific references. Each of them contains some breakdown of theoretical contributions and comparison with experiments. But note that $-$ as the other answer correctly remarks $-$ the numerical values of separate diagrams are in general meaningless as they are not gauge invariant. This is not a problem in lowest order (e.g. the one-loop energy shift arises from bound-electron self-energy and vacuum polarization, both contributions being independently gauge invariant), but in higher orders, the best you can get are gauge invariant subsets of diagrams.

Hydrogen-like ions

  • The general nrQED theory of predominantly non-relativistic (low-$Z$) hydrogen-like ions and muonic hydrogen (Lamb-shift, hyperfine structure, etc.) is reviewed in

Eides, Grotch, Shelyuto: Theory of Light Hydrogenlike Atoms (2000)

  • A less detailed, but more up-to-date review of the Lamb shift:

Yerokhin, Pachucki, Patkos: Theory of the Lamb shift in hydrogen and light hydrogen-like ions (2019)

  • Also Lamb shift, but for systems with stronger relativistic effects (higher $Z$):

Yerokhin, Shabaev: Lamb shift of $n=1$ and $n=2$ states of hydrogenlike atoms, $1\leq Z\leq110$ (2015)

  • An old but very good paper (the numbers might be somewhat outdated, but the discussion is very detailed):

Erickson, Yennie: Radiative level shifts, I. Formulation and lowest order Lamb shift (1965)

Positronium

Probably the most recent review on positronium is

Adkins, Cassidy, Perez-Rios: Precision spectroscopy of positronium: Testing bound-state QED theory and the search for physics beyond the Standard Model (2022)

It compares computed and experimental hyperfine splittings and lifetimes of Ps (note that hyperfine splitting is a rather unfortunate name for Ps; it just means the ${^3S}-{^1S}$ energy difference in this context).

Free-electron $g$-factor

A recent review about $g_\text{e}=2(1+\kappa_\text{e})$ (where $\kappa_\text{e}=\alpha/(2\pi)+...$) is

Aoyama, Kinoshita, Nio: Theory of the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Electron (2019)

There are similar, but more controversial computations/measurements concerning the free-muon $g$-factor, but I do not know enough about that; hopefully someone else can explain it.

Bound-electron $g$-factor of hydrogen-like ions

The $g$-factor of the electron gets corrections from the binding to the nucleus, which can lead to significant deviations from the free-electron value: $$ g_\text{e,bound}=\frac{2}{3}\left[1+2\sqrt{1-(Z\alpha)^2}\right]+2\kappa_\text{e}\left[1+\frac{1}{6}(Z\alpha)^2+...\right]+... \ , $$ further corrections involving higher QED, nuclear recoil and nuclear structure corrections, and so on (as usual). A breakdown of the different contributions for Si$^{13+}$ and comparison with experiment can be found in

Sturm, Wagner, Schabinger, Zatorski, Harman, Quint, Werth, Keitel, Blaum: $g$ Factor of Hydrogenlike $^{28}$Si$^{13+}$ (2011)

Helium

  • Fine-structure splitting of the $^3P$ states of He (proposed as a way to refine the value of $\alpha$):

Pachucki, Yerokhin: Fine structure of helium-like ions and determination of the fine structure constant (2010)

  • Static dipole polarizability of He:

Puchalski, Szalewicz, Lesiuk, Jeziorski: QED calculation of the dipole polarizability of helium atom (2020)

...and so on

This list could be continued infinitely (with e.g. the high-resolution rovibrational spectroscopy of H$_2^+$ and H$_2$), but these are the precision tests of QED that I can assign references to off the top of my head.

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Frame challenge: Individual Feynman diagrams are not gauge invariant, so the value of a single diagram is not meaningful. (At least if you have gauge bosons around, as in the $g$-factors you ask about.)

Gauge-invariance is guaranteed for the full amplitude by the Ward identity, $k^\mu \mathcal{M}_\mu = 0$, where $k^\mu$ is the momentum of a photon leg, and $\mathcal{M}_\mu$ is the amplitude with the polarization vector stripped from it. This ensures that under shifts of the photon polarization vector $\epsilon^{\mu} \rightarrow \epsilon^\mu + C k^\mu$, which is the on-shell gauge freedom, the amplitude $\epsilon^\mu \mathcal{M}_\mu$ does not change.

However, if you split the amplitude into contributions from multiple diagrams $\mathcal{M} = \mathcal{M}_1 + \dots$, then each individual diagram will generically be modified by such a gauge transformation.

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