Chapter 39: Problem 37
Draw possible Feynman diagrams for the following phenomena: a) protons scattering off each other b) neutron beta decays to a proton: \(n \rightarrow p+e^{-}+\bar{\nu}_{e}\).
Chapter 39: Problem 37
Draw possible Feynman diagrams for the following phenomena: a) protons scattering off each other b) neutron beta decays to a proton: \(n \rightarrow p+e^{-}+\bar{\nu}_{e}\).
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Get started for freeThe text describes and sketches the basic Feynman diagram for the fundamental process involved in the decay of the free neutron: One of the neutron's \(d\) -quarks converts to a \(u\) -quark, emitting a virtual \(W^{-}\) boson, which decays into an electron and an electron anti-neutrino (the only decay energetically possible). Similarly describe and sketch the basic (tree-level) Feynman diagram for the fundamental process involved in each of the following decays: a) \(\mu^{-} \rightarrow e^{-}+\nu_{\mu}+\bar{\nu}_{e}\) b) \(\tau^{-} \rightarrow \pi^{-}+\nu_{\tau}\) c) \(\Delta^{++} \rightarrow p+\pi^{+}\) d) \(K^{+} \rightarrow \mu^{+}+\nu_{\mu}\) e) \(\Lambda \rightarrow p+\pi\)
A Geiger-Marsden type experiment is done by bombarding a 1.00 - \(\mu\) m thick gold foil with 8.00 - \(\mathrm{MeV}\) alpha rays. Calculate the fraction of particles scattered to an angle a) between \(5.00^{\circ}\) and \(6.00^{\circ}\) and b) between \(30.0^{\circ}\) and \(31.0^{\circ}\). (The atomic mass number of gold is 197 and its density is \(\left.19.3 \mathrm{~g} / \mathrm{cm}^{3} .\right)\)
Determine the classical differential cross section for Rutherford scattering of alpha particles of energy \(5.00 \mathrm{MeV}\) projected at uranium atoms at an angle of \(35.0^{\circ}\) from the initial direction. Assume point charges for both the target and the projectile atoms.
A Geiger-Marsden experiment, where \(\alpha\) particles are scattered off of a thin gold film, yields an intensity of particles of \(I\left(90^{\circ}\right)=100 .\) counts/s at a scattering angle of \(90^{\circ} \pm 1^{\circ} .\) What will be the intensity of particles at a scattering angle of \(60^{\circ} \pm 1^{\circ}\) if the scattering obeys the Rutherford formula?
An electron-positron pair, traveling toward each other with a speed of \(0.99 c\) with respect to their center of mass, collide and annihilate according to \(e^{-}+e^{+} \rightarrow \gamma+\gamma\). Assuming the observer is at rest with respect to the center of mass of the electron-positron pair, what is the wavelength of the photons?
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