Propagation of angular momentum in charged pion decay and related processes
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2024-01-09 v2
Abstract
There are confusions about angular momentum propagation in scattering or decay processes involving the transition between particle systems that appear to transform differently under Lorentz transformations. This paper provides an analysis of the transformation properties of the states and interactions for a few typical processes within the standard model of particle physics, and performs explicit calculations showing how angular momentum transfers in these processes. We shall show that angular momentum conservation is completely consistent with the calculation in quantum field theory.
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@article{arxiv.2305.04238,
title = {Propagation of angular momentum in charged pion decay and related processes},
author = {Bowen Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.04238},
year = {2024}
}