Clebsch-Gordan coefficients for the extended quantum-mechanical Poincaré group and angular correlations of decay products

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2004.11.013MaRDI QIDQ1775563zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. L. Harshman, N. Licata

Publication date 4 May 2005

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0407299

zbMATH Keywords

Clebsch-Gordan coefficientdiscrete symmetriesextended Poincare group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

Abstract: This paper describes Clebsch-Gordan coefficients (CGCs) for unitary irreducible representations (UIRs) of the extended quantum mechanical Poincar'e group $pt$. `Extended' refers to the extension of the 10 parameter Lie group that is the Poincar'e group by the discrete symmetries $C$, $P$, and $T$; `quantum mechanical' refers to the fact that we consider projective representations of the group. The particular set of CGCs presented here are applicable to the problem of the reduction of the direct product of two massive, unitary irreducible representations (UIRs) of $pt$ with positive energy to irreducible components. Of the sixteen inequivalent representations of the discrete symmetries, the two standard representations with $U_C{U}_P=pm1$ are considered. Also included in the analysis are additive internal quantum numbers specifying the superselection sector. As an example, these CGCs are applied to the decay process of the $Upsilon(4S)$ meson.

Review text

This paper deals with properties of the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients of unitary irreducible representations of the extended quantum-mechanical Poincaré group, i.e., the usual Poincaré group extended by the parity (P), charge (C) and time reversal (T) discrete symmetries. As known, there are 16 non-equivalent unitary irreducible representations for the group whenever a given mass and spin are given. Starting from the standard representations \(U_{C}U_{P}=\pm 1\), corresponding to massive bosons and fermions, the author proves that the tensor product of massive unitary irreducible representations again leads to one of these standard representations, thus providing expressions for the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. Two physically relevant cases are covered, namely particle-antiparticle compositions and composition of particles which coincide with their antiparticle. After discussing additive internal quantum numbers which specify superselection sectors, the decay of particles and the computation of angular correlations (with CP-conservation) is presented. To illustrate this fact, the \(\Upsilon(4S)\) meson is chosen.

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