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arxiv: 1703.04752 · v1 · pith:47WPMQYBnew · submitted 2017-03-14 · ✦ hep-ph · hep-ex

Rotation-invariant observables in polarization measurements

classification ✦ hep-ph hep-ex
keywords observablesrotation-invariantdecaymeasurementspolarizationspin-1testacceptance
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Polarization measurements provide a detailed method to test the Standard Model and to search for new physics. Most previous studies depend on pre-selected coordinates, which blurs the significance of the results. The construction of two rotation-invariant observables in vector boson decay into a fermion pair has been proved to be a big success. In this work, we show that there are more rotation-invariant observables and provide a general recipe to find all of them in an arbitrary decay process. Taking spin-1/2 and spin-1 particle decay processes as examples, we calculate the explicit expressions of all rotation-invariant observables, which can serve as a robust test of the detector acceptance and help the analysis of experimental data.

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