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PHYSICS Revision Notes

This document provides instructions for two student activities involving particle identification and decay reactions using particle cards: 1. Students are asked to sort particles and anti-particles, identifying which mesons are their own anti-particles. 2. Students are to use particle cards to check whether several sample decay reactions conserve mass/energy, charge, baryon number, and lepton number. They are also asked to identify why some impossible decay reactions listed would not conserve these properties.

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PHYSICS Revision Notes

This document provides instructions for two student activities involving particle identification and decay reactions using particle cards: 1. Students are asked to sort particles and anti-particles, identifying which mesons are their own anti-particles. 2. Students are to use particle cards to check whether several sample decay reactions conserve mass/energy, charge, baryon number, and lepton number. They are also asked to identify why some impossible decay reactions listed would not conserve these properties.

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TAP 535- 2: Particle card student activities

1. Sorting particles and anti-particles.


Apart from the positron, all the anti-particles of baryons and leptons have obvious
names. Not so for mesons! The mesons have baryon number 0 and lepton number
0. Some of them are anti-particles of others, but three of the mesons in these cards
are their own anti-particles. Can you identify all these?

2. Decay reactions.
(a) Use the particle cards to check that the following decay reactions are all possible.
The rules are:
 Mass/energy is conserved. In practice, this means that the mass on the left hand
side of the equation must be more than the mass on the right hand side if the reaction
is to go.
 (Electric) charge is conserved
 Baryon number is conserved
 Lepton number is conserved
 Strangeness may be conserved, or may change by 1
(The symbol  refers to a gamma photon.)

+   + + 
  p + 
-  e- + e-bar + 
   0 + 
 +

(b) Here are some impossible decay reactions. For each one, use the particle cards to
find why the reaction is not possible.

n  p + e- + e
   + 
  p + 
  p + K0
Answers and worked solutions
1. The particle – antiparticle pairs are: (, ), (K+, K-), (K0, K0-bar), (+, -) and the
particles which are their own antiparticles are: , 0, 0 and J/0.

2. (b)

n  p + e- + e lepton number not conserved

   +  baryon number not conserved

  p +  charge not conserved

  p + K0 mass/energy not conserved

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