General Partial Wave Analysis of the Decay of a Hyperon of Spin ½

Abstract

In this note consideration is given to the general problem of the decay of a hyperon of spin 1/2 into a pion and a nucleon under the general assumptions of possible violations of parity conservation, charge conjugation invariance, and time-reversal invariance. The discussion is in essence a partial wave analysis of the decay phenomena and is independent of the dynamics of the decay. Nonrelativistic approximations are not made on either of the products. (A.C.)