General Properties Of Three-body Decays

Document #:

GlueX-doc-3345-v2

Document type:

Hall D Note

Submitted by:

Curtis A. Meyer

Updated by:

Curtis A. Meyer

Document Created:

22 Jun 2017, 11:25

Contents Revised:

04 Feb 2021, 12:48

Metadata Revised:

04 Feb 2021, 12:48

Abstract:

This document derives some general properties of Dalitz plots. In particular,
a derivation of the relation between the density along a decay band and the
cosine of the decay angles is presented. It is also shown that given two identical particles, how the helicity angles of the two decay chains are
related.

Files in Document:

• gzipped tarball (dalitz.tar.gz, 1.1 MB)
• pdf file (dalitz.pdf, 545.0 kB)

Topics:

• GlueX Physics
• Partial Wave Analysis

Authors:

• Curtis A. Meyer

Keywords:

amplitude analysis pwa angular distribution meson spectroscopy

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