Angular asymmetry of a chiral charged-current interaction

ID: angular-asymmetry-of-a-chiral-charged-current-interaction

For the massless common vector-axial coupling at both vertices in weak charged-current quark scattering, subtracting opposite directions gives
It is undefined for . Overall rate normalization cancels. Pure vector or axial interactions have zero asymmetry, while gives its maximal coefficient. The inequality implies . This unpolarized observable does not distinguish purely left- from purely right-handed couplings applied at both vertices.

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