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Mesons
Particle Pion Symbol AntiMakeup particle Rest mass MeV/c2 139.6 S C B Lifetime Decay Modes 0 0 0 2.60 x10
-8

ud

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Pion

Self

135.0

0 0

0.83 x10-16 1.24 x10

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Kaon Kaon Kaon Eta Eta prime Rho Rho Omega Phi

K+ K0s K0L

KK0s K0L
Self Self

us 1* 1* 2* 2* ud uu, dd uu, dd ss

493.7 497.7 497.7 548.8 958 770 770 782 1020

+1 0 0 +1 0 0 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

+, +0 +-,20 +e-e 2, 3 +- +0 ++-0 K+K-,K0K0

0.89 x10-10 5.2 x10

-8

0 0' +
0

<10-18 ... 0.4 x10

-23

Self Self Self

0.4 x10-23 0.8 x10

-22

Particle Data Group

20 x10-23

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D D D J/Psi B B Bs Upsilon

D+ D0 D+s

DD0 D-s
Self

cd cu cs cc bu db sb bb

1869.4 1864.6 1969 3096.9 5279 5279 5370 9460.4

0 +1 0 0 +1 0 +1 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 0

10.6 x10-13 4.2 x10-13 4.7 x10-13 0.8 x10-20 1.5 x10-12 1.5 x10-12 ... 1.3 x10
-20

K + _, e + _ [K,,e] + _ K+_ e+e-, +-... D0 + _ D0 + _ B-s + _ e+e-, +-..

J/
BB0 Bs 0

B+ B0 Bs0
Self

Note that an underline indicates an antiparticle. To Baryon Table Mesons are intermediate mass particles which are made up of a quark-antiquark pair. Three quark combinations are called baryons. Mesons are bosons, while the baryons are fermions. 1* The neutral Kaons K0 and K0 represent symmetric and antisymmetric mixtures of s L the quark combinations down-antistrange and antidown-strange. 2* The neutral eta meson is considered to be a quark combination

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Note: In the table, antiquarks are indicated by an underline, e.g., ud means a combination of an up and an antidown quark. Most of the listed decay times are in the range 10-13 to 10-8 s which indicates decay by the weak interaction. These decays involve quark transformations which can be represented by Feynman diagrams. Meson diagram Discussion of mesons HyperPhysics***** Quantum Physics Go Back

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