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chatsash
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I did a quick search through the forums and didn't find the answers I was looking for, so I thought I'd ask. Does charge conservation still apply for collisions between elementary particles? I'm taking a second year foundations of physics course, and we were given a fairly simple looking reaction in lecture: (hopefully I can get tex to work this time)
$$
p \rightarrow n + \mu^{-} + \bar{\nu}_\mu
$$
and told that this decay is possible since baryon number and lepton number are conserved. Now as far as I can tell, this violates conservation of charge. Am I missing something, or did my prof goof when making the example?
Thanks!
$$
p \rightarrow n + \mu^{-} + \bar{\nu}_\mu
$$
and told that this decay is possible since baryon number and lepton number are conserved. Now as far as I can tell, this violates conservation of charge. Am I missing something, or did my prof goof when making the example?
Thanks!