Minimal physical constraints on the angular distributions of two-body boson decays

作者:Faccioli Pietro*; Lourenco Carlos; Seixas Joao; Woehri Hermine K
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2013, 88(3): 031901.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.88.031901

摘要

The angular distribution of the two-body decay of a boson of unknown properties is strongly constrained by angular momentum conservation and rotation invariance, as well as by the nature of the detected decay particles and of the colliding ones. Knowing the border between the "physical'' and "unphysical'' parameter domains defined by these "minimal constraints'' (excluding specific hypotheses on what is still subject of measurement) is a useful ingredient in the experimental determinations of angular distributions and can provide model-independent criteria for spin characterizations. In particular, analyzing the angular decay distribution with the general parametrization for the J = 2 case can provide a model-independent discrimination between the J = 0 and J = 2 hypotheses for a particle produced by two real gluons and decaying into two real photons.

  • 出版日期2013-8-5

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