On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Stephen Cooke <stephen_coo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
"*** If I understand correctly there are no sufficiently heavy elements > available in Holmlids experiment for Kaons to form this way? …" > > This is not strictly correct. [ ... snip ... ] > Ni 62 and Fe 58 would both therefore be sufficient for containing a K0 > Meson 496 MeV > Fe 56 on the other hand would just fall short. > Note that what you seem to be describing is squeezing the 3+ quarks in each ~ of the 58 nucleons in a nickel nucleus into the quark and antiquark pair in the kaon. Has anything so fantastic been accomplished in a particle accelerator? (The number of quarks in a nucleon is complicated by the idea of "sea quarks".) Or, alternatively, your proposal appears to involve creating shrunken quarks that no longer have the mass that was given over to the kaon. (Something some people here might be amenable to.) Eric
