Modern Homework

Ying Liu

Questions
4. No, all mesons have a baryon number of 0 and antibaryons have a baryon number of -1.
Baryons have a baryon number of 1 so by symmetry laws this cannot happen.
5.
+
produces e
+
+ v
e
+ anti-v
u
. e
-
and e
+
cancel out to form gamma rays. So v
e
and anti-v
u
are
formed.
6. Leptons feel everything but the strong force so photons, gravitons, W and Z bosons. Quarks
feel everything so they are mediated by all the particles listed above and the gluon.

Problems.
6. The first reaction conserves Baryon and lepton number but does not conserve strangeness. The
second reaction obeys all conservation laws. This shows that the Kaon is not its own antiparticle
because both of the pair-antipair conservation should be consistent
8. a. Baryon number of left side is 2 where right side is 0.
b. Charge if left side is 1 where the charge of right side is 0.
c. The mass of a pion (both anti and non-anti) is about 140 MeV/c
2
whereas photons do
not have rest mass. (Note that a photon cannot have a relativistic/energy mass of
280MeV/c
2
because of the speed of light limit)
12. Neutron: Two bottom one top.
Electric charge of bottom: -e/3. Charge of top: 2e/3. 2*-e/3 + 2e/3 = 0
Baryon number: 2*1/3 + 1/3 = 1
Strangeness number: 2*0 + 0 = 0
Sigma-Baryon: Up and anti strange
2/3 + 1/3 = charge of 1.
Baryon number: 1/3+-1/3 = 0
Strangeness: 0 + 1 = 1.
Charmed Lambda: Up down charm
Charge: 2/3 + -1/3 + 2/3 = 1.
Baryon number: 1/3+1/3+1/3 = 1
Strangeness: 0+0+0 = 0
21. E = 7TeV = 1.12E-6 J. m = E/c^2 = 1.248E-23.
Lorentz Factor = mass proton/Energy = 0.0001340389
V = (1- 8.9E-9) * c. Pretty much the speed of light
32. a.
0
has strangeness of -2 where proton and pion have strangeness of 0.
b. Mass of muon is 105.7 MeV/c^2 and electron is .511 MeV/c^2 and the MeV/c^2
cannot exceed the difference in mass/energy.
c. Lambda has strangeness of -1. Both pion and proton have strangeness of 0.
d. Spin of proton is 1/2 . Spin of all pions is 0.
e. Lepton number of pion and neutron is 0. Lepton number of a muon is 1.