Published October 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Lifetime of polarized fermions in flight

  • 1. Xi'an Jiaotong Univ., Xi'an (China). Faculty of Science
  • 2. Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China). Dept. of Physics

Description

Based on the parity violation in the standard model, the authors study the dependence of the lifetime on the helicity of an initial-state fermion in weak interactions. It is pointed out that if initial fermions in decays are longitudinally polarized, then the lifetime of right-handed polarized fermions is greater than that of left-handed polarized fermions in flight with the same speed in any inertial system

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chinese Physics Letters
Journal Volume
19
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 1427-1429
ISSN
0256-307X