Friday, July 22, 2011

Massless Particles (photons)?

The rest mass of the pion should not matter. In the pion's frame of reference, the momentum and energy should be equally divided between the photons -- and the net momentum will be zero. In the laboratory frame, it won't be. If you do a relativistic transformation of coordinates, you should be able to get the indicated result.. But it has been too many years since I did this stuff to be any more specific.

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