Remember the conservation of Byron number. Nature has specific rules for particle interactions and decays, and these rules have been summarized in terms of conservation laws. One of the most important of these is the conservation of baryon number. Each of the baryons is assigned a baryon number B=1. This can be considered to be equivalent to assigning each quark a baryon number of 1/3. This implies that the mesons, with one quark and one antiquark, have a baryon number B=0. No known decay process or interaction in nature changes the net baryon number.
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Both linear and angular momentum are conserved through the emission of > muon neutrinos as the meson decays to a negative muon. It is this muon that > catalyzes fusion of hydrogen in the proton proton (PP) reaction. >
