General properties of the decay amplitudes for massless particles |
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Institution: | 1. Assistant Professor,Szabist,Karachi and 75600, Pakistan;2. Student,Szabist,Karachi and 75600, Pakistan |
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Abstract: | We derive the kinematical constraints which characterize the decay of any massless particle in flat space-time. We show that in perturbation theory the decay probabilities of photons and Yang-Mills bosons vanish to all orders and the decay probability of gravitons vanishes to one-loop order for graviton loops and to all orders for matter loops. A general power counting argument indicates in which conditions a decay of a massless particle could be possible: the Lagrangian should contain a self-coupling without derivatives and with a coupling constant of positive mass dimension. |
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