Amplitudes for the Exotic b1π Decay
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 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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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 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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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: |