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Chapter 2 - Quarks and Leptons Flashcards

0
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What charge(s) can a pion be?

A

+ve -ve 0

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what is the charge of a muon?

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-1

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What charge(s) can a kaon be?

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+ve -ve 0

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3
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What does a muon decay into?

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electron and anti neutrino

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what does an anti muon decay into?

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positron and neutrino

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What does a pion+ day into?

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anti muon and neutrino

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What does a pion- decay into?

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muon and anti neutrino

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what does a kaon+ decay into?

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pion+ and (pion0 or pion+ and pion-)

or muon and antineutrino

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What does a kaon- decay into?

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pion- and (pion0 or pion- and pion+)

neutrino and anti muon

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9
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What does a pion0 decay into?

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photons

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Define the term leptons

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Particles and antiparticles which don’t interact through strong interaction

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Define the term hadron

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Particles and antiparticles which interact through strong interaction

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12
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What do hadrons interact through if they’re charged?

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Electromagnetic

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Define the term baryons

A

Protons and all other hadrons that decay into protons directly or indirectly

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14
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What do leptons interact through if they’re charged?

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ectromagnetic

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15
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What do leptons interact through?

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Weak interaction

16
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What are mesons?

A

Hadrons that do not include protons in their decay products

17
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List the order of particles in increasing size and mass

A

electron, muon, pion, kaon, proton, neutron

18
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Why was strangeness invented?

A

To explain why certain reactions weren’t observed

19
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Outline the quark composition of a meson

A

One quark and one antiquark

20
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Outline the quark composition of a hadron

A

3 quarks or 3 antiquarks

21
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What quarks make up a neutron?

22
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What quarks make up a proton?

23
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Why is the kaon strange?

A

Its produced through strong interaction but decays through the weak

24
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When is strangeness not conserved?

A

Through the weak interaction

25
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What is the quark composition of a kaon0?

A

down anti strange

26
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What is the quark composition of the anti-kaon0?

A

strange anti-down

27
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What is the quark composition of the kaon+

A

up anti-strange

28
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What is the quark composition of the kaon-

A

strange anti-up

29
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What is the quark composition of the pion-?

A

down anti-up

30
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What is the quark composition of the pion+?

A

up anti-down

31
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What is the quark composition of the pion0?

A

strange anti-strange
up anti-up
down anti-down

32
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What must be conserved in a reaction?

A

Baryon number, lepton number, energy, momentum, charge, (strangeness)

33
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What does a kaon0 decay into?

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