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
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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
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or direction of decay (specified by daughter 1) of
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simple insertion of complete sets of states for recoupling
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![{\displaystyle =\sum _{L,S}\left[{\sqrt {\frac {2J+1}{4\pi }}}D_{m\lambda }^{J*}(\Omega ,0)\right]\left[{\sqrt {\frac {2L+1}{2J+1}}}\left({\begin{array}{cc|c}L&S&J\\0&\lambda &\lambda \end{array}}\right)\left({\begin{array}{cc|c}S_{1}&S_{2}&S\\\lambda _{1}&-\lambda _{2}&\lambda \end{array}}\right)\right]a_{LS}^{J}}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/a93b86e837aee85c12249ab0f791a8c2693e53e6) |
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
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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 on must write down the symmetrized expression:
Application
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defining an amplitude...
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angular distributions two-body X and decays
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![{\displaystyle \left[P_{X}(-)^{J_{X}+1+\epsilon }e^{2i\alpha }\left({\begin{array}{cc|c}J_{b_{1}}&L_{X}&J_{X}\\m_{b_{1}}&m_{X}&-1\end{array}}\right)+\left({\begin{array}{cc|c}J_{b_{1}}&L_{X}&J_{X}\\m_{b_{1}}&m_{X}&+1\end{array}}\right)\right]}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/fded5277a8bfc72affb1262313d3388212337173) |
resonance helicity sum: ε=0 (1) for x (y) polarization; is the parity of the resonance
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polarization term: η is the polarization fraction
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k, q are breakup momenta for the resonance and isobar, respectively
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Clebsch-Gordan coefficients for isospin sum
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two-stage breakup angular distributions,
currently modeled as
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angular momentum sum Clebsch-Gordan coefficients for b1 and ω decays.
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Clebsch-Gordan coefficients for isospin sums:
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