Question 1
The diagram is an example of a ‘baryon decuplet’. Baryons are organised along horizontal and diagonal axes, as shown in the diagram below.
What is the quark structure of the bayron?
The diagram is an example of a ‘baryon decuplet’. Baryons are organised along horizontal and diagonal axes, as shown in the diagram below.
What is the quark structure of the bayron?
A collision between particles creates 4 mesons:
The overall charge and strangeness of the 4 mesons is zero.
What are possible quark combinations for X and Y?
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The baryon has strangeness of −1 and is produced through the strong interaction between a meson and a neutron.
What is the quark composition of particle X?
Particles can be organised in a plot known as the ‘eightfold way’, as shown in the diagram below.
What are the quark compositions of Σ+, Σ–, Ξ0 and Ξ–?
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Ξ0 |
Ξ– |
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The K– is an example of a meson with strangeness –1.
Which of the following combinations of particles could the K– particle decay to?
Which of the four hadrons shown could be Ξ0?
None of the following decay equations for baryons are permitted.
Equation 1:
Equation 2:
Equation 3:
Equation 4:
Which property is not conserved in each equation?
Equation 1 |
Equation 2 |
Equation 3 |
Equation 4 |
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A |
charge |
baryon number |
charge and lepton number |
baryon number |
B |
lepton number |
baryon number |
charge and lepton number |
charge and lepton number |
C |
baryon number |
lepton number |
baryon number |
lepton number and baryon number |
D |
lepton number |
charge |
charge |
charge |
The charmed sigma particle, decays through the following equation:
Both and contain one charm quark and have strangeness of 0.
Which of the following could be the quark structure of the and the ?
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The following Feynman diagram shows the baryons and leptons in a nuclear decay
Which of the four Feynman diagrams, A to D, is physically equivalent to the diagram given for this decay?
The Higgs Boson was discovered at CERN in 2012. It is not stable and decays into other particles.
Which of the following could not be a possible decay pathway for the Higgs Boson?