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Accelerators such as the Triangle Universities Meson Facility (TRIUMF) in British Columbia produce secondary beams of pions by having an intense primary proton beam strike a target. Such “meson factories“ have been used for many years to study the interaction of pions with nuclei and, hence, the strong nuclear force. One reaction that occurs is where the is every short−lived particle. The graph in Figure 33.26 shows the probability of this reaction as a function of energy. The width of the bump is the uncertainty in energy due to the short lifetime at the
(a) Find this lifetime.
(b) Verify from the quark composition of the particles that this reaction annihilates and then re−creates a d quark and a antiquark by writing the reaction and decay in terms of quarks.
(c) Draw a Feynman diagram of the production and decay of the showing the individual quarks involved.
Figure 33.26 This graph shows the probability of an interaction between a and a proton as a function of energy. The bump is interpreted as a very short lived particle called a The approximately 100−MeV width of the bump is due to the short lifetime of the
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