For one daughter of mass and two massless daughters, set , where is the parent mass. In natural units, integrating over all directions and all kinematically allowed final momenta givesThis follows by splitting the final state into a massless spectator and a two-particle cluster of invariant squared mass , and using . The expression counts phase space alone; a physical decay rate must weight it with the squared decay amplitude. Near threshold the dimensionless factor vanishes as .
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