Energy and Momentum Conservation in a p+ pion decay process
The process decay is:
Fig.1 A bubble chamber picture. The
main event of interest is shown in colour. A
decays at rest to a
and a neutrino
The conservation laws are:
(2.1)
where
and
because the
meson decays at rest.
because the neutrino rest mass
.
So
(2.2)
And
(2.3)
Plugging (2.3) into (2.2) gives:
(2.4)
Subtracting
from (2.3) gives the muon
total energy:
(2.5)
The neutrino energy is:
(2.6)
The muon
Kinetic energy is :
(2.7)
Taking the particles rest masses:
and
one can calculate these energies: