I am trying to find the photon energies of the decay π0→γγ and their dependence on the pion energy Eπ, its initial velocity β and the scattering angle between the photon and initial pion trajectory θ in the lab frame. Assuming (⋆) one photon is travels in the direction that the π0 was travelling, I can get the photon energies with conservation of energy and momentum like this: Eπ=E1+E2
pπ=1c(E1−E2)withpγ1,2=Eγ1,2c
to
E1,2=12(Eπ±cpπ)
But (
⋆) can't be the general answer because in the laboratory frame, the photons might be emitted at an angle
θ to the original
π0 direction. So I thought I'd say
pπ=p1,2cosθ
which would change my result to:
E1,2=Eπ2±cosθ.
Can anyone confirm this result? I am missing an explicit dependency on the initial
π0 velocity
β here. Because the next step would be to confirm the photon energies are limited by
Eπ(1±β)/2.