Highest-weight weak-isospin selection in kaon decay
ID: highest-weight-weak-isospin-selection-in-kaon-decay
Suppose a transition operator obeys and , and acts on the lower component of an isospin-half kaon. Its output has third component zero, and . This excludes an isospin-two output. A spinless parent decaying to two spinless pions has zero relative orbital angular momentum, so Bose-Einstein statistics excludes the antisymmetric isospin-one sector. The output is therefore the two-isovector singlet. In the equal-mass isospin limit, charged and neutral two-pion decay widths have ratio two, including the identical-particle counting.
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