Polarized massless leptonic W decay

ID: polarized-massless-leptonic-w-decay

For a resting W boson with real spatial polarization vector along , the fermion spin sum gives for massless charged lepton and antineutrino momenta. The two-body Lorentz-invariant phase space gives the displayed angular decay rate. Since , the integrated width is , equal to the unpolarized width. The massive-vector spin average changes the angular distribution, not the total width. No initial spin average is taken for a specified pure polarization.

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