Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-theoretical-physics-major-option-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/6/a/solution

Evaluate the two-body Lorentz-invariant phase space in the decaying particle's rest frame, . The spatial delta function sets . Both massless particles have energy , leaving
Here the factor in the second equality is the Jacobian of the energy delta function. Integrating the solid angle gives . If the decay is isotropic, the squared amplitude is angle independent, so
This uses distinguishable final particles or an amplitude/phase-space convention with any required identical-particle symmetry factor already included. Two genuinely identical final bosons require an additional if the full angular domain is integrated without such a factor. The complex particle and antiparticle in the following parts are distinct, so no such division is required there.

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