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# Radiative lepton decays $`L\to \nu\bar\nu l\gamma`$
References: [[1705.03782]](https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03782), [[1712.05633]](https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05633)
Configurations implemented
* Canonical cuts
* MEG
* full cuts
* reduced cuts
* PiBeta
* BaBar
* Full implantation
* Only the energy
* Invariant mass
In the radiative decay with massive fermions, an IR safe cut needs to
be applied to the hard photon. However, in the
$`\mathcal{M}_{n+1}^{(0)}`$ configuration there are two photons. The
hard one needs to be identified first and then cut.
## Canonical cuts
The canonical version refers to the values often quoted in the PDG of
```math
E_\gamma > 10\,\mathrm{MeV}
```
Usually, this also means that we are exclusive, i.e. exactly one
photon is visible.
## MEG
### Full cuts
In this configuration, the full MEG cuts are used. We assume a 85%
polarised muon and require the following cuts
```math
E_\gamma > 40\,\mathrm{MeV}\,,\qquad E_e> 45\,\mathrm{MeV}
```
```math
|\cos\sphericalangle(\vec p_\gamma,\vec e_z)| \equiv |\cos\theta_\gamma| < 0.35
\,,\qquad
|\phi_\gamma| < \frac{2\pi}{3}
```
```math
|\cos\sphericalangle(\vec p_e,\vec e_z)| \equiv |\cos\theta_e| < 0.5
\,,\qquad
|\phi_e| < \frac{\pi}{3}
```
MEG requires one and only one photon meaning that an event with real
radiation with energy larger then the detector resolution of roughly 2
MeV will be discarded if it hits the detector.
### Reduced cuts
It is also interesting to remove the cuts on the electron angles to
investigate to which extend the back-to-back approximation used by MEG
is valid.
## PiBeta cuts
The PiBeta experiment had less stringent cuts when looking at the
radiative muon decay, producing the current best result for this
process.
```math
E_\gamma > 10\,\mathrm{MeV}\,,\qquad \sphericalangle(\vec p_\gamma,\vec p_e) > 30^\circ
```
## BaBar
BaBar has measured the radiative tau decays in
[[1502.01784]](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.01784.pdf) with rather
complicated cuts.
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