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billbray
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Forgive my question for being so elementry, but I'm jumping a bit ahead of my curriculum...
I've attached a decay process for the negative pion. I actually spliced together the initial pion decay and then the subsequent muon decay, assuming the entire process is correct.
1) the first W- boson decays to a muon, the second W- boson decays to an electron. I assume that the greater energy for the first W- decay is due to it's greater momentum - given it's mass is set at about 80Gev, I assume this is due to greater velocity than the second W- boson decay to an electron? Is that correct??
2) If the first W- boson has greater velocity, is it shorter lived? or is the life cycle of the W- boson set? Meaning it would travel a greater distance before decaying...
any insights, feedback, etc would be greatly appreciated...
thanks
bill
I've attached a decay process for the negative pion. I actually spliced together the initial pion decay and then the subsequent muon decay, assuming the entire process is correct.
1) the first W- boson decays to a muon, the second W- boson decays to an electron. I assume that the greater energy for the first W- decay is due to it's greater momentum - given it's mass is set at about 80Gev, I assume this is due to greater velocity than the second W- boson decay to an electron? Is that correct??
2) If the first W- boson has greater velocity, is it shorter lived? or is the life cycle of the W- boson set? Meaning it would travel a greater distance before decaying...
any insights, feedback, etc would be greatly appreciated...
thanks
bill