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Rotation-invariant relations in vector meson decays into fermion pairs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-21 v1

Abstract

The rotational properties of angular momentum eigenstates imply the existence of a frame-independent relation among the parameters of the decay distribution of vector mesons into fermions. This relation is a generalization of the Lam-Tung identity, a result specific to Drell-Yan production in perturbative QCD, here shown to be equivalent to the dynamical condition that the dilepton always originates from a transversely polarized photon.

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@article{arxiv.1005.2601,
  title  = {Rotation-invariant relations in vector meson decays into fermion pairs},
  author = {Pietro Faccioli and Carlos Lourenco and Joao Seixas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2601},
  year   = {2014}
}