Leptonic pion decay

ID: leptonic-pion-decay

Leptonic pion decay by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-18
The pion decay constant gives . Contracting the momentum with the leptonic weak charged current and applying the external Dirac equations makes the amplitude proportional to the charged-lepton mass. This is an explicit example of helicity suppression.

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