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Past exam of the quantum field theory course of the University of Oxford 2025 2 d Solution by
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For an allowed decay channel in iii, . Integrating the spatial Dirac delta distribution in the printed Lorentz-invariant phase-space measure sets . With and , its remaining value isThe positive root is , where , and the Dirac delta distribution contributes the Jacobian determinant . HenceIt follows that the literal printed integral evaluates toThe printed integration ranges count each final configuration twice, once as and once in the opposite order. For two identical final bosons, the physical decay width therefore requires an additional identical final-state symmetry factor :There is one allowed decay channel per heavy particle, not an extra factor of two from summing the two charge-conjugate heavy species. Both expressions vanish below the two-body decay threshold , and the limiting value at threshold is zero. For the literally forbidden labels , the decay width is instead zero because its decay amplitude vanishes, as explained in iii.
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