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 Cepheus
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 A dichotomy
#8322957 - 04/24/08 12:18 PM (5 months, 15 days ago) |
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A meson is a boson (which is part of the hadron family so it is subjected to the strong nuclear force), which consists of a quark and its anti-quark.
Why don't these 2 fundamental particles annihilate each other? Surely the electrostatic attraction between these particles would allow for them to collide with sufficient energy?
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Cepheus
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Re: A dichotomy [Re: Cepheus]
#8322993 - 04/24/08 12:30 PM (5 months, 15 days ago) |
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Also, I'm looking for a decent resource for information regarding particle / nuclear physics.. wikipedia is only so useful and a lot of the information present is somewhat incomplete..
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Re: A dichotomy [Re: Cepheus]
#8324726 - 04/24/08 09:03 PM (5 months, 15 days ago) |
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They probably exist in a bound state and then decay, kind of like how a positronium 'atom' can exist in a bound state for a short time before decaying. I dont really know.
If you want a decent resource you probably want a used textbook, no?
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Cepheus
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Well... I figured it out.
For a particle to annihilate they have to be the exact opposite of the other particle, i.e.; the same mass, the same (yet opposite) charge (i.e 2/3 and -2/3) and have the same (yet opposite) spin.
Also the interaction between the 2 quarks is limited by the gluons 
so something like a pi meson (up and upbar) doesn't annihilate..
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