Solution

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Let be the angle from the incoming up quark, along the proton direction, to the outgoing charged antilepton in the W boson rest frame. The initial and final spin projections in ii are and . The Wigner small-d matrix therefore gives
After squaring and normalizing over , the charged-lepton angular distribution is
Its integral is one since . The charged antilepton is preferentially emitted toward the antiproton. Measuring the angle from the incoming down antiquark instead replaces by and produces ; the axis convention is part of the answer. Per unit solid angle the normalized density is .

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