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Revision as of 03:27, 12 August 2011

General Relations

Angular Distribution of Two-Body Decay

Let's begin with a general amplitude for the two-body decay of a state with angular momentum quantum numbers J,m. Specifically, we want to know the amplitude of this state having daughter 1 with trajectory . We can also describe the angular momentum between the daughters as being L and spin sum as s. Alternatively, we will label the daughters as having helicities of and - projections on the direction of decay (specified by daughter 1)

insertion of the complete set of helicity basis vectors

insertion of the complete LS basis set

Substitution of each bra-ket with their respective formulae. Note that in the event of one daughter being spin-less, the second Clebsch-Gordan coefficient is 1

Isospin Projections

One must also take into account the various ways isospin of daughters can add up to the isospin quantum numbers of the parent, requiring a term:

where a=1 and b=2, referring to the daughter number. Because an even-symmetric angular wave function (i.e. L=0,2...) imply that 180 degree rotation is equivalent to reversal of daughter identities (a,b becoming b,a) one must write down the symmetrized expression:

Application