With beta decay a down quark turns into a up quark + W- results in e- and (anti-neutrino) and up quark turns into a down quark + W+ produces e+ + (neutrino), does the W- and W+ get emitted and then turn into e- + (anti-neutrino) or e+ + (neutrino) or do they stay in the nucleus? How does the Z...
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Does anyone out there know the rules for mesons when it comes to the particle/antiparticle combinations? Is it simply like an up and anti-up quark that makes up a meson or is it like up and anti-down or down and anti-up? Or can it even be other combinations of the six quarks?
Also I have...
This is my understanding about quarks, anti-quarks and color charge, is it correct, and if it is correct, then does each scenario’s rules work for all of the possibilities:
This swaps the colors between two differently colored quarks:
1.) If you have a red quark, it turns blue by emitting a (red...
I now fully see, how a red colored quark can turn blue; thank you Adrian for showing me how to illustrate emission and absorption of the red colored quark, in a simple way, like addition and subtraction; that answered it. Like:
+red – (+red + anti-blue) = + blue (where a red quark turns into...
I think I understand how a red quark can absorb a gluon turning it blue, and how a red quark can emit an anti-gluon and turn blue, but that in both situations there is only a red quark changing into blue, not swapping out colors between two quarks.
For example:
red - (red +-blue) = blue
red +...
Am I completely wrong? I need to know exactly how to illustrate the color changes between quarks, with the addition and subtraction, like the absorption and emission, the example given. Do I have them in the wrong pairs, like may be all of the emissions and absorptions of red need to be in one...
When quarks change colors would the following be an example of how all quarks change color charge?
Red Turns Into Blue:
red - (red + -blue) = blue
blue + (red + -blue) = red
Blue Turning Into Red:
blue - (blue + -red) = red
red + (blue + -red) = blue
Gluons come in antiparticles. For example, red-antiblue gluon in the antiparticle of the blue anti-red.
Red quarks emit a red-antiblue gluon and becomes a blue quark.
1) +red - (+red + -blue) = +blue
Red quarks absorb a blue-antired quark and becomes a blue quark
2) +red + ( -red + +blue)...
I know that this is a lot to ask, but I am having an unusually difficult time learning about the strong force, and I see that you are very knowledgeable about this topic, enough to help me make sense of it all. I really need some help with this so if you could help explain it to me I’d...
These are the questions I have about your reply. I noticed that at the end of the reply some equations were written that I did not have the foggiest idea of what to make of them. You are much more advanced, so if you reply, make sure to keep it really simple. I have trouble understanding if only...
I have been learning some stuff off of youtube, but I did not get a full enough understanding of how quarks have colors, and anti-quarks have anti-colors and how the gluons have to be colors and anti-colors and how it all works. Some of it doesn't make any sense.
The first question is about a...
As I am studying the very basics topics of high energy physics on my own time I find that there are patterns everywhere, the same kind of patterns. Where there are 6 quark types and those come in three pairs, for example the up and down quarks. Then you have leptons which do the exact same...
I read that theories are a framework of explanations of experimental data and that they predict experimental results. I have also read that sometimes data comes before there is a theoretical explanation and vice versa; theoretical explanations predict data that has not been yet proven by...