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What are hadrons ?

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Particles and antiparticles that can interact through the strong interactions

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Examples of hadrons?

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Protons, neutrons, pi mesons, K mesons

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What are leptons

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Particles and antiparticles that do not interact through the strong interaction

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Examples of leptons

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Electrons, muons, neutrinos

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What are baryons?

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Baryons are protons and all other hadrons (including neutrons) that decay into protons, either directly or indirectly

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What are mesons?

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Hadrons that do not include protons in their decay products. In other words, kaons and pions are not baryons

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What is a muon?

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Negatively charged particle with a rest max over 200 times the rest mass of an electron

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What is a pion

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Can be positively, negatively or neutrally charged which has a rest mass greater than a muon but less that a proton

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What is a kaon

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Positively, negatively or neutrally charger what has a rest mass greater than a pion but less than a proton

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What does a kaon decay into?

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Pions OR
A muon and anti neutrino OR
An anti muon and a neutrino

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What does a charged pion decay into?

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Muon and anti neutrino OR
An anti muon and a neutrino OR
A pi 0 meson decays into high energy photon

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What does a muon decay into?

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An electron, an anti-electron neutrino and a muon neutrino

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What does an anti muon decay into?

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Positron and a neutrino

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What quarks are mesons made up of?

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Quark and antiquark pair

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Baryons/antibaryons quark combination

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Baryon - 3 quarks
Antibaryon - 3 antiquarks

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What is the difference between hadrons and lepton

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Hadrons:

  • made of quarks
  • not fundamental
  • can be split further

Leptons:

  • ‘light’ fundamental particles
17
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What is the exchange particle of the strong nuclear force?

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Pion

18
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Lepton Rules:

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  1. A neutrino/antineutrino can change into/from its corresponding charged lepton
  2. In muon decay, the muon changes into a muon neutrino. Along with an electron and anti electron neutrino

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