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 for having daughter 1 with momentum direction Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Omega=(\phi,\theta)} in the center of mass reference frame, and helicity Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \lambda_1} , while daughter 2 has direction Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle -\Omega=(\phi+\pi,\pi-\theta)} and helicity Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \lambda_2} .

Let U be the decay operator from the initial state into the given 2-body final state. Intermediate between the at-rest initial state of qn J,m and the final plane-wave state is a basis of outgoing waves describing the outgoing 2-body state in a basis of good J,m and helicities. Insertion of the complete set of intermediate basis vectors, and summing over all intermediate J,m gives

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \langle \Omega \lambda_1 \lambda_2 | U | J m \rangle = \langle \Omega \lambda_1 \lambda_2 | J m \lambda_1 \lambda_2 \rangle \langle J m \lambda_1 \lambda_2 | U | J m \rangle }

We can also describe the angular momentum between the daughters as being L and their spin sum as s. Alternatively, we will label the daughters as having helicities of $\lambda _{1}$ and $\lambda _{2}$ - projections of the two particles' spins onto their respective momentum directions.

$\langle \Omega \lambda _{1}\lambda _{2}|U|Jm\rangle =\sum _{L,S}\langle \Omega \lambda _{1}\lambda _{2}|Jm\lambda _{1}\lambda _{2}\rangle \langle Jm\lambda _{1}\lambda _{2}|JmLS\rangle \langle JmLS|U|Jm\rangle$

insertion of the complete LS basis set

$=\sum _{L,S}\left[{\sqrt {\frac {2J+1}{4\pi }}}D_{m\lambda }^{J*}(\Omega ,0)\right]\left[{\sqrt {\frac {2L+1}{2J+1}}}\left({\begin{array}{cc|c}L&S&J\\0&\lambda &\lambda \end{array}}\right)\left({\begin{array}{cc|c}S_{1}&S_{2}&S\\\lambda _{1}&-\lambda _{2}&\lambda \end{array}}\right)\right]a_{LS}^{J}$

Substitution of each bra-ket with their respective formulae. $\lambda =\lambda _{1}-\lambda _{2}$ 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:

$C^{a,b}=\left({\begin{array}{cc|c}I^{a}&I^{b}&I\\I_{z}^{a}&I_{z}^{b}&I_{z}^{a}+I_{z}^{b}\end{array}}\right)$

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) one must write down the symmetrized expression:

$C(L)={\frac {1}{\sqrt {2}}}\left[C^{a,b}+(-1)^{L}C^{b,a}\right]$

Application

Production

Photon-Reggeon-Resonance vertex

Consider the production of the resonance from the photon and reggeon in the reflectivity basis, the eigenstates of the reflectivity operator. (This operator is a combination of parity and $\pi$ rotation about the normal to the production plane (usually y axis.)
$\mathbb {R} |Jm\rangle =P(-1)^{J-m}|J\;-m\rangle$

The eigenstates of the reflectivity operator are formed as follows:
$|Jm\epsilon \rangle =|Jm\rangle +\epsilon P(-1)^{J-m}|J\;-m\rangle$

such that

$\mathbb {R} |Jm\epsilon \rangle =\epsilon (-1)^{2J}|Jm\epsilon \rangle$

The photon linear polarization states turn out to be eigenstates of reflectivity as well:
Let x (y) polarization states be denoted with - (+)

$|\mp \rangle ={\sqrt {\frac {\pm 1}{2}}}\left(|1-1\rangle \mp |1+1\rangle \right)$

$\mathbb {R} |\mp \rangle =\mp 1|\mp \rangle$

Since the production Hamiltonian should commute with reflectivity: $V=\mathbb {R} ^{-1}V\mathbb {R}$

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Acting with the reflectivity operator on initial and final state brings out the reflectivity eigenvalues of the resonance, photon and reggeon. This result leads to a constraint:
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Proton-Reggeon vertex

The amplitude of target proton's emission of an exchange particle, a reggeon, in particular direction and helicity projections can be written as:

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transition amplitude for Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle p \rightarrow R + p'} in the direction Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Omega_R} w.r.t. the coordinate system defined in the resonance RF.

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follows from relations given above

Decay

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