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At fixed $s=s_{13}$, use $E_2^{\ast }=(M^2-m_2^2-s)/(2\sqrt{s})$ and $E_3^{\ast }=(s+m_3^2-m_1^2)/(2\sqrt{s})$ in the 13-pair rest frame. The endpoint values of its relative cosine give the displayed Dalitz plot boundary. The momenta are fixed by the Källén function; $(m_1+m_3{)}^2\le s\le (M-m_2{)}^2$. Integrating $s_{23}^{+}-s_{23}^{-}$ gives the invariant-coordinate area, whose phase-space normalization still contains $M^{-2}$.

A parent of rest mass $M$ can decay to on-shell daughters of rest masses $m_i$ only if $M\ge {\sum }_i{m}_i$. In the parent rest frame, each daughter energy is at least its rest energy, so four-momentum conservation proves necessity. The excess energy controls the available Lorentz-invariant phase space. A two-body decay threshold is the two-daughter special case; spin and other selection rules can still forbid an energetically allowed channel.

For $q=u,c$ and a neutral photon or Z boson, the loop runs over down-type quarks. CKM unitarity cancels a common mass-independent loop contribution. The large bottom mass relative to down and strange masses normally makes the surviving bottom contribution largest, and $|V_{cb}|>|V_{ub}|$ favours final charm. Adding a resolved photon to a $qZ$ final state introduces another electromagnetic coupling and three-body phase space without removing the flavour cancellation. Some diagrams use the quartic gauge vertex, so the number of vertices need not increase.

For two outgoing particles the Lorentz-invariant phase space is $d{\Phi }_2=(2\pi {)}^4{\delta }^{(4)}(p-k-k^{\prime })d^{3}k/((2\pi {)}^{3}2E_k)d^3{k}^{\prime }/((2\pi {)}^{3}2E_{k^{\prime }})$. With massless daughters in their center-of-mass frame, $d{\Phi }_2=d\Omega /(32{\pi }^2)$ and $\int d{\Phi }_2=1/(8\pi )$. This fixes normalization factors in decay widths and scattering rates.

At tree level this QED process has two internal muon exchange diagrams, differing by the order of the two outgoing photon vertices. Their propagator momenta are $p_1-k_1$ and $p_1-k_2$ for incoming muon momentum $p_1$. The amplitude begins at order $e^2$ and obeys the two-photon fermion Ward identity. Identical final photons require the usual factorial correction when integration over the full final-state Lorentz-invariant phase space would otherwise count them twice.

Use the kaon CP eigenstates convention $CP|K^0⟩=-|{\bar{K}}^0⟩$, matching kaon CP mixing parameter. Then $|K_1⟩=(|K^0⟩-|{\bar{K}}^0⟩)/\sqrt{2}$ is CP even, while $|K_2⟩=(|K^0⟩+|{\bar{K}}^0⟩)/\sqrt{2}$ is CP odd. With CPT symmetry and a common small mixing parameter, the physical states can be writtenHere $S,L$ mean short and long mean lifetimes; the kaon CP mixing parameter $ϵ$ depends on the flavor-state phase convention. A positive flavor-exchange convention instead makes the symmetric flavor combination CP even, as explained in exchange-positive CP convention for neutral kaon mixing. Mixing these conventions would reverse the interpretation of the written sums.

Why does the two-pion final state test CP symmetry? A spin-zero kaon decaying into two spin-zero pions has relative orbital angular momentum $\ell =0$ by angular momentum conservation. Two negative intrinsic parities multiply to plus, and $(-1{)}^{\ell }=1$. Charge conjugation exchanges ${\pi }^{+}$ and ${\pi }^{-}$; the $\ell =0$ state is even under this exchange. Hence this two-pion state has CP eigenvalue $+1$. If a decay transition operator $T$ preserves CP symmetry, inserting CP on both sides of $⟨\pi \pi |T|K_2⟩$ changes its sign without changing its value: that decay amplitude must vanish.

Assume for illustration that CP violation occurs only through the state admixture and the decay transition preserves CP symmetry. Put $A_1=⟨\pi \pi |T|K_1⟩$. ThenNeglecting the tiny difference in two-body Lorentz-invariant phase space between the physical masses gives ${\Gamma }_L^{\pi \pi }/{\Gamma }_S^{\pi \pi }\simeq |ϵ{|}^2$. A branching fraction, however, divides a partial decay width by the total decay width. With $\hslash =1$, ${\tau }_i=1/{\Gamma }_i$, soFor chosen values $|ϵ|=0.01$ and ${\tau }_L/{\tau }_S=100$, the branching fraction ratio is $0.01$, whereas the partial decay width ratio is $0.0001$. This is original arithmetic, not a historical fit. The longer observation time amplifies the integrated fraction relative to the instantaneous partial decay rate.

The different-flavour quark annihilation into a massive pair has only an $s$-channel gluon graph at tree level when the two quark flavours differ. Its amplitude contains one incoming and one outgoing colour current, with common magnitude factor $g_s^2/s$. On-shell current conservation removes the gauge-parameter-dependent longitudinal part of the gluon propagator. To display the Dirac signs transparently, evaluate spin traces with the auxiliary mostly-minus metric $\eta =-g$ and $\{{\gamma }^{\mu },{\gamma }^{\nu }\}=2{\eta }^{\mu \nu }$; the invariants $s,t$ are then the usual positive-energy Mandelstam invariants, numerically identical to those defined in the paper.

The incoming colour average and outgoing colour sum giveAveraging over the two spins of each incident particle supplies an additional $1/4$. The physical spin sums are $\sum u\bar{u}=/p+M$ and $\sum v\bar{v}=/p-M$. ThereforeThe coefficient is equivalently $8{\pi }^2{\alpha }_s^2/(9s^2)$, with ${\alpha }_s=g_s^2/(4\pi )$.

The two top projectors cannot both contain $-M$. The printed expression has that error. It is not repaired by changing the metric convention consistently: a particle and antiparticle still require the appropriate distinct projectors. In the auxiliary convention, its outgoing tensor would obey $q_{\mu }{H}_{\mathrm{printed}}^{\mu \alpha }=8M^2{q}^{\alpha }$, rather than zero for $q=p_1+p_2$. At threshold it gives a zero contracted trace, while the correctly averaged vector-current production amplitude squared has a nonzero limit $4g_s^4/9$. The phase-space cross section still vanishes at threshold because the final velocity tends to zero. The colour and spin prefactor above is consequently the prefactor for the corrected trace; no overall constant can make the misprinted massive trace the physical answer for all kinematics.

Below $m_H=2m_W$, the on-shell two-body decay channel is kinematically closed. An imaginary $p^{\ast }$ in the preceding formula is therefore a sign that this formula no longer applies. Slightly below threshold, the physical process can instead contain an on-shell W boson and an off-shell one, $H\to W{W}^{\ast }\to Wf{\bar{f}}^{\prime }$, followed by decay of the remaining W boson. Its rate requires the virtual-vector propagator, its allowed fermionic decay channels and the corresponding multiparticle Lorentz-invariant phase space. The nonzero decay width of the W boson smooths the idealized threshold. A polarization-resolved rate for two on-shell longitudinal vectors must not be analytically continued and treated as that multiparticle rate.

First fix the photon momentum convention. With $Q^2=-q^2>0$, $\nu =P\cdot q>0$ and $x=Q^2/(2\nu )>0$, an absorbed photon gives final momentum $p_X=P+q$. This is the physical momentum support of a deep-inelastic hadronic tensor. The original PDF instead prints ${\delta }^{(4)}(P-p_X-q)$ while keeping that positive-$x$ convention. Taken literally, it would requirein the Bjorken scaling limit, leaving no physical final states. The sign is therefore inconsistent with the requested nonzero deep-inelastic structure functions. Below, use the physically consistent absorption delta function ${\delta }^{(4)}(P+q-p_X)$. Alternatively all photon-momentum and scaling-variable conventions would have to be reversed together.

Work in the leading parton model: the target is unpolarized; scattering is incoherent from massless collinear quarks and antiquarks; intrinsic transverse momentum and target-mass effects are neglected. The parton distribution functions count constituents and include their colour multiplicity. At this order, neglect strong radiative corrections and the resulting logarithmic scale evolution.

Let a quark carry momentum $p=\xi P$, using a lightlike reference $P$ at leading order, and let $r=p+q$. The spin-averaged electromagnetic trace isIntegrating its one-particle final Lorentz-invariant phase space, with the $1/(4\pi )$ tensor normalization, supplies ${\delta }_{+}(r^2)/2$. Thus the spin-averaged electromagnetic parton tensor isOn physical support, $r^2=0$ gives $\xi =x$ and $p\cdot q=Q^2/2$. Define the transverse tensorsThe bracket in $w_f$ becomesThis follows by writing $p=\xi \tilde{P}-q/2$ on shell and expanding; it also verifies transversality to $q$.

The correct parton convolution normalization for a hadronic tensor isThe $1/\xi$ converts number weighting into covariant target-state normalization: a parton response per constituent is normalized by $2p^0$, whereas the hadron tensor uses $2P^0$, and $P^0/p^0=1/\xi$. Antiquark charge changes sign but its square and symmetric spin trace are the same.

Use the parton on-shell delta identity,Matching the two tensor coefficients now givesIn particular $F_2=2x{F}_1$, the Callan-Gross relation for spin-one-half partons. Scaling here means the naive leading approximation; full Quantum chromodynamics produces scale-dependent distributions and corrections.

Each quark contributes $+1$ and each antiquark contributes $-1$ to its flavour-vector charge. Sea pairs therefore cancel in the quark number sum rule:Here $N_f$ is the net flavour number, not the total number including sea pairs. This condition by itself fixes no antiquark distribution.

Under the separately imposed valence-only approximation, ${\bar{q}}_f=0$ and only up/down distributions remain. The proton has $(N_u,N_d)=(2,1)$ and the neutron has $(1,2)$. With $Q_u=2/3$, $Q_d=-1/3$, the valence-only proton and neutron structure-function moments areNo extra factor of three belongs here: colour is already included in the constituent distributions and the flavour counts. These are conditional valence-model moments, not unrestricted asymptotic statements in a theory whose evolution generates a sea.

The last panel of the preceding process figure shows deep inelastic scattering through a virtual photon. The blob represents the electromagnetic hadronic tensor response, with all final hadronic states included. With charges factored into $e$ and the hadronic current as in the question, a suitable scattering amplitude, up to an irrelevant overall phase, isThe electron fermion spin sum, before averaging the two initial spin states, gives the following normalization of the leptonic tensor:The initial electron spin average is a separate factor $1/2$. Equivalently one can absorb it into a tensor $L/2$, but the prefactor in the requested formula uses the unaveraged trace $L$. The massless Dirac equations imply $q^{\mu }{L}_{\mu \nu }=q^{\nu }{L}_{\mu \nu }=0$, the relevant Ward identity.

In the target rest frame the incident flux is $4p\cdot P=4ME$. This remains valid for a massive target because the electron is massless: the general flux $4\sqrt{(p\cdot P{)}^2-p^2{P}^2}$ reduces to that expression. The outgoing electron contributes $d^3{p}^{\prime }/((2\pi {)}^{3}2E^{\prime })$, and the inclusive final-state sum is $4\pi W_H^{\mu \nu }$. Including the electron spin average therefore givesThe implicit hadron spin average in $W_H$ must not be inserted a second time.

For an unpolarized target, Lorentz invariance permits tensor structures formed from $P$, $q$ and the metric. Hermiticity relates the two index orders. The electromagnetic response is parity even, excluding the pseudotensor $i{ϵ}^{\mu \nu \rho \sigma }{P}_{\rho }{q}_{\sigma }$. A possible ordinary antisymmetric $P^{\mu }{q}^{\nu }-q^{\mu }{P}^{\nu }$ term is excluded by current conservation. The symmetric part initially has four structures, $g^{\mu \nu }$, $P^{\mu }{P}^{\nu }$, $q^{\mu }{q}^{\nu }$ and $P^{\mu }{q}^{\nu }+q^{\mu }{P}^{\nu }$. Imposing both current-conservation conditions leaves the transverse decomposition of an unpolarized hadronic tensor:For example, contracting $q$ into the first structure gives $(1+A)q^{\mu }$ in the printed parametrization, and contracting into either parenthesis gives $(1+B)\nu$ or $(1+C)\nu$. Since the two independent deep-inelastic structure functions are not generally linked by symmetry, transversality requiresThere are only two invariant variables once $P^2=M^2$ is fixed; they may be chosen as $Q^2$ and Bjorken x $x=Q^2/(2\nu )$.

Now make the leading massless collinear parton approximation. In the hard parton calculation, use a lightlike collinear reference for $P$, neglecting target-mass effects of relative order $M^2/Q^2$ as well as quark masses. Literally combining a massive $P$ with an exactly massless constituent momentum $\xi P$ would be inconsistent. The exact rest-frame flux derived above does not require this approximation; it is the following partonic response that does.

Let $r=\xi P$ and $k=r+q$. Strip the quark charge out of the current, since its square is already the factor $Q_f^2$ in the parton convolution. Averaging the initial quark spin and summing the final spin gives the spin-averaged electromagnetic parton tensorThe spatial momentum delta fixes $\mathbf{k}=\mathbf{q}+\xi \mathbf{P}$. The remaining one-particle Lorentz-invariant phase space, together with $1/(4\pi \xi )$ in the definition, suppliesSince $r^2=k^2=0$ and $r\cdot k=\xi P\cdot q$, the full parton response isTerms with a free $q$ index vanish when contracted with the conserved leptonic tensor. Thus the part of $\tilde{W}$ contributing to the cross-section iswhere $\doteq$ denotes equality in that contraction, rather than an equality of the full tensors. The omitted terms are necessary for the full hadronic tensor to be transverse; the wording about contributing terms in the PDF is important here.

To prove the delta identity with the correct Jacobian, set $\omega =E_q+\xi E_P$. On physical support $E_k>0$ and $\omega >0$. Factoring $E_k^2-{\omega }^2=(E_k-\omega )(E_k+\omega )$ gives the positive-energy on-shell delta function identityThis is restricted to the positive-energy branch; the other root must not be included. Using the spatial momentum constraint and $P^2=0$ in the leading hard approximation,The Dirac delta function change of variable therefore gives the parton on-shell delta identityHere $\nu >0$. This is the actual printed identity: the converted TeX's final $\delta (x)/E_k$ is a transcription error. If target mass is formally retained in the delta argument, it becomes $Q^2-2\xi \nu -{\xi }^2{M}^2$, so the stated simple root and Jacobian no longer apply.

Let $D(x)={\sum }_f{Q}_f^2(q_f(x)+{\overline{q}}_f(x))$. The parton integral collapses at $\xi =x$, givingThe transverse decomposition of an unpolarized hadronic tensor, in the same contraction, is $-g^{\mu \nu }{F}_1+P^{\mu }{P}^{\nu }{F}_2/\nu$. Comparing the two independent structures yieldsThis derives the Callan-Gross relation from the spin-one-half trace and on-shell constraint. Antiquarks give the same symmetric response and therefore the sum $q_f+{\overline{q}}_f$. The result applies at leading order in the massless parton model; target masses, intrinsic transverse momentum and Quantum chromodynamics radiative effects can generate a nonzero longitudinal deep-inelastic structure function and modify the relation.

Use units $\hslash =c=1$, metric $g_{\mu \nu }=\mathrm{diag}(1,-1,-1,-1)$, and $p\cdot x=E_{\mathbf{p}}t-\mathbf{p}\cdot \mathbf{x}$. Treat the complex scalar field and its adjoint as independent variables when varying the action. Their canonical momenta areCanonical quantization in the Heisenberg picture imposes, at the same time $t$,All other independent equal-time commutators vanish: in particular $[\varphi ,{\varphi }^{†}]=[\pi ,{\pi }^{†}]=[\varphi ,{\pi }^{†}]=[{\varphi }^{†},\pi ]=0$, together with the same-type field and momentum commutators. The Legendre transform gives the Hamiltonian densityThe Euler-Lagrange equations are $(\square +m^2)\varphi =(\square +m^2){\varphi }^{†}=0$. The positive- and negative-frequency plane waves form a complete basis of solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation. Since the field is complex, their operator coefficients are independent rather than being adjoints of each other. Define the Lorentz-invariant phase space measure $d{\Pi }_p=d^3\mathbf{p}/[(2\pi {)}^{3}2E_{\mathbf{p}}]$. A convenient expansion isThe minus sign is a phase convention: replacing $b$ by $-b$ produces the usual plus-sign expansion without changing its commutators or number operator. The normalization is fixed by the canonical commutation relations. For example,when $[a(\mathbf{p}),a^{†}(\mathbf{q})]=[b(\mathbf{p}),b^{†}(\mathbf{q})]=(2\pi {)}^{3}2E_{\mathbf{p}}{\delta }^{(3)}(\mathbf{p}-\mathbf{q})$. The cross commutators vanish and the other canonical relation follows by taking adjoints with the operator order reversed. Conversely these mode commutators can be obtained by Fourier inversion of the equal-time relations. This is canonical quantization of a complex scalar field.

Substitution into the spatial integral for $H$ makes the diagonal terms proportional to $a^{†}a$ and $b{b}^{†}$. Terms creating or annihilating a pair have $\mathbf{q}=-\mathbf{p}$ and a coefficient $E_{\mathbf{p}}^2-{\mathbf{p}}^2-m^2=0$, so they cancel. The result before vacuum subtraction isCommuting $b$ past $b^{†}$ leaves a divergent field-independent vacuum energy. The displayed zero-vacuum-energy form must therefore be understood as a normal-ordered Hamiltonian:A regulator can be introduced before subtracting the constant. This is the normal-ordered Hamiltonian of a free complex scalar field; the unrenormalized Hamiltonian is not literally equal to this expression without that convention.

The scalar-field vacuum is annihilated by both annihilation operators. Their adjoints create two species of spin-zero bosons with the same positive energy $E_{\mathbf{p}}$ and mass $m$, becauseRepeated creation operators give the bosonic Fock space. The negative-frequency part does not create a negative-energy physical state; it creates the antiparticle of positive energy. The charge distinguishes the two species.

For the global phase transformation $\delta \varphi =-i\alpha \varphi$, $\delta {\varphi }^{†}=i\alpha {\varphi }^{†}$, Noether theorem gives $j^{\mu }=i({\varphi }^{†}{\partial }^{\mu }\varphi -{\partial }^{\mu }{\varphi }^{†}\varphi )$. Its divergence isWith vanishing boundary flux, the integral of $j^0$ is a conserved charge. Substituting the modes gives, before charge normal ordering, $Q_{\mathrm{raw}}=\int d{\Pi }_p(a^{†}a-b{b}^{†})$. The pair terms cancel because their frequency difference is zero when their spatial momenta sum to zero. Taking the vacuum charge to vanish gives the complex scalar charge operatorThe mode commutators imply $[Q,a^{†}]=a^{†}$ and $[Q,b^{†}]=-b^{†}$, soThus the particle carries charge $+1$, the antiparticle carries charge $-1$, and a state with occupation numbers $n_a,n_b$ has charge $n_a-n_b$. Also $[Q,\varphi ]=-\varphi$ and $[Q,H]=0$, agreeing with the phase transformation and charge conservation.

The strong-interaction matrix element between two spin-zero pseudoscalar mesons has only $p^{\mu }$ and $k^{\mu }$ available. The product of the two intrinsic parities is positive. An axial current would require a pseudovector constructed from these momenta, but an expression involving the Levi-Civita symbol needs three independent four-vectors and therefore vanishes. This is a consequence of parity conservation in the hadronic matrix element, not of parity conservation in the weak interaction. The vector current can have the two independent structures $p+k$ and $p-k$. Its coefficients are Lorentz scalars; with $p^2=m_K^2$ and $k^2=m_{\pi }^2$ fixed, their only varying invariant is $s=q^2$. HenceThese are the pseudoscalar-to-pseudoscalar form factors. With relativistically normalized states they are dimensionless. The vanishing axial matrix element and this decomposition explain the two equalities separately.

Write $q_1$ and $q_2$ for the outgoing electron and antineutrino momenta. From the Fermi interaction, an invariant scattering amplitude, up to an irrelevant overall sign or phase, isThe CKM matrix element $V_{us}$ multiplies the quark current in the convention of this interaction. Let ${\ell }_{\mu }=\bar{u}(q_1){\gamma }_{\mu }(1-{\gamma }^5)v(q_2)$. For massless leptons, the massless Dirac equation and chirality matrix anticommutation giveIn the second term move $/q_2$ through the chiral projector before applying $/q_{2}v=0$. Since $p+k=2p-q$, this transverse massless leptonic current givesThe disappearance of $f_{-}$ uses the massless approximation; for a massive charged lepton its contraction is proportional to the lepton mass.

Use the fermion spin sum and the supplied gamma matrix trace identities. The symmetric part of the leptonic tensor isThe Levi-Civita symbol term is antisymmetric and drops out when contracted with $p^{\mu }{p}^{\nu }$. ThusThere is no initial-spin average because the kaon is spinless. For the integrated massless leptonic tensor, keep every factor of $2\pi$ explicit and define the unnormalized two-lepton Lorentz-invariant phase spaceThe leptons are massless, so $q_i^0=|{\mathbf{q}}_i|$. Its trace is $g^{\mu \nu }{I}_{\mu \nu }=\pi s$. ThereforeThe three Lorentz-invariant phase-space measures and their momentum delta function contribute $1/[8(2\pi {)}^5]$, in addition to $1/(2m_K)$ in the decay rate. Combining them with the spin sum givesThis massless semileptonic pseudoscalar decay rate uses a two-lepton integral over future-timelike $q$ and the pion integral is restricted to the physically allowed region. The null endpoint follows by continuity. The coefficient has mass dimension $-5$, so the complete expression has mass dimension one, as a decay rate must in natural units.

In the kaon centre-of-momentum frame, put $E=k^0$ and $\kappa =|\mathbf{k}|$. ThenThe dimensionally consistent Källén function isThe pion-only mass term must have fourth power: the second power printed in the PDF is dimensionally inconsistent. This repair also follows directly from squaring $E=(m_K^2+m_{\pi }^2-s)/(2m_K)$. Angular integration and the change of variable givewhere the negative sign reverses the endpoints. Combining this with the bracket $\lambda /4$ yieldsThus $\boxed{B=G_F^2|V_{us}{|}^2/(192{\pi }^3{m}_K^3),a=0,b=(m_K-m_{\pi }{)}^2}$. The lower limit is the minimum invariant mass of two massless leptons; at the upper limit the pion is at rest. The coefficient has mass dimension $-7$, while $ds{\lambda }^{3/2}$ has dimension eight. The Källén function also shows why the differential decay rate vanishes at zero pion momentum.

The tree-level Feynman diagram contains one weak charged current vertex. Fermion arrows point along fermion-number flow, so the outgoing antiquark arrow points toward the vertex.

For one fixed matching color, the scattering amplitude isAn overall phase from the vertex has no effect on the width. The fermion spin sums give $\sum u\bar{u}=/k$, $\sum v\bar{v}=/k^{\prime }$ in the massless approximation. For the three initial polarizations, use a spin average of $1/3$. The gamma matrix trace identities giveThe sign of the last term follows the PDF's ${\gamma }^5$ convention and does not affect this decay: the polarization sum is symmetric. Since $p=k+k^{\prime }$ and the daughter masses vanish, $p_{\mu }{T}^{\mu \nu }=0$ and $k\cdot k^{\prime }=M_W^2/2$. ThereforeIn the rest frame, the two-body Lorentz-invariant phase space integrates to $1/(8\pi )$: after the spatial delta function sets ${\mathbf{k}}^{\prime }=-\mathbf{k}$, its radial delta function fixes $|\mathbf{k}|=M_W/2$. Explicitly,The decay formula consequently givesThis is the printed expression, interpreted for one color. For a physical quark-flavor channel there are three orthogonal final color states. Their probabilities add; no initial color average is present for a colorless W boson. ThusThe PDF's formula omits this color multiplicity if read as the ordinary inclusive flavor width. It is also the familiar normalization for a colorless lepton channel.