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jameson2
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I'm working through the start of the Quantum Field Theory book by Peskin and Schroeder. The first section deals with an electron and positron colliding to give a positive and negative muon traveling along a line at an angle theta to the line of the e,p collision.(This is using center of mass coordinates). Calculating the matrix elements involves working out the polarization vectors of each particle. For the case in the book it gives (0,1,i,0) for the elctron and (0,cos theta, i, sin theta). I don't know how they get these though. They also give the other matrix elements without proof. Could anyone explain to me how to work out these vectors?
Thanks alot
Thanks alot