Accession Number:

AD0272207

Title:

Law of Conservation of Muons

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY

Personal Author(s):

• Feinberg, G.
• Weinberg, S.

Report Date:

1961-02-01

Pagination or Media Count:

11.0

Abstract:

The apparent absence of muon-electron transitions without neutrinos leads one to suspect that there is a new conservation law forbidding them. Calculations of the rate of such processes, assuming no such law exists, indicated that it is hard to understand their absence in an intermediate boson theory of weak interactions. Even if there is no intermediate boson, the decay would lead to these processes in some order of perturbation theory, and arguments were given which indicate that any field theory of weak interactions may predict unacceptably large rates for these processes in the absence of a selection rule.

Descriptors:

• *MESONS
• *MUONS
• *QUANTUM STATISTICS
• *RADIOACTIVE DECAY
• ELECTRONS
• GAMMA EMISSION
• PERTURBATION THEORY
• SCATTERING
• TRANSPORT PROPERTIES

Subject Categories:

• Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Physics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE