Physics A-Level
Weak interaction and particle decay
What Weak interaction and particle decay means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Weak interaction and particle decay
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Reference: OCR
The emitted electron and antineutrino are not quarks; they are leptons produced by the weak interaction.
Topics that use Weak interaction and particle decay
- Fundamental particles (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Anti-quark charge reversal
- Baryon number and strangeness
- Baryons
- Charge from quark content
- Conservation of charge
- Conservation of lepton number
- Equation balancing as a validity test
- Fractional quark charge
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