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Past exam of the particle physics course of the University of Oxford 2019 1 b i Solution by
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Take an on-shell W boson of fixed mass , zero transverse recoil, negligible charged-lepton mass, and unrestricted angular acceptance. In its rest frame the charged lepton has momentum magnitude . A longitudinal Lorentz boost to the laboratory preserves transverse momentum, soBoth angular roots contribute to the same . Set and . The change-of-variable Jacobian determinant has , and the two-root angular weight is . ConsequentlyThis is the ideal W-decay Jacobian peak. The divergence at the endpoint is integrable; it is a change-of-variable effect, not an infinite decay probability. Reversing the polar axis does not change this transverse momentum density, because the sum of the two roots removes the term odd in .
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