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Table of Mesons

1) Mesons are intermediate mass particles that are made up of a quark-antiquark pair and are bosons, while three quark combinations called baryons are fermions. 2) The table lists various mesons like pions, kaons, eta, rho, omega, phi, D, J/Psi, B, Bs, and Upsilon along with their symbols, masses, lifetimes, and dominant decay modes. 3) Most mesons decay via the weak interaction, which involves quark transformations, in the time range of 10-13 to 10-8 seconds as indicated in the table.

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Table of Mesons

1) Mesons are intermediate mass particles that are made up of a quark-antiquark pair and are bosons, while three quark combinations called baryons are fermions. 2) The table lists various mesons like pions, kaons, eta, rho, omega, phi, D, J/Psi, B, Bs, and Upsilon along with their symbols, masses, lifetimes, and dominant decay modes. 3) Most mesons decay via the weak interaction, which involves quark transformations, in the time range of 10-13 to 10-8 seconds as indicated in the table.

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Index

Mesons
Particle
concepts
Anti- Rest mass
Particle Symbol Makeup S C B Lifetime Decay Modes
particle MeV/c2 References
2.60 Serway
Pion π+ π- ud 139.6 0 0 0
x10-8
μ+νμ Ch. 47

Giancoli
0.83
π0
Pion Self 135.0 0 0 0 2γ Ch. 32
x10-16
Griffiths
1.24
Kaon K+ K- us 493.7 +1 0 0 μ+νμ, π+π0
x10-8
0.89
Kaon K0s K0s 1* 497.7 +1 0 0 π+π-,2π0 Particle
x10-10 Data
5.2 Group
Kaon K0L K0L 1* 497.7 +1 0 0 π+e-νe
x10-8
Eta η0 Self 2* 548.8 0 0 0 <10-18 2γ, 3μ

Eta prime η0' Self 2* 958 0 0 0 ... π+π-η


0.4
Rho ρ+ ρ- ud 770 0 0 0
x10-23
π+π0

0.4
Rho ρ0 Self uu, dd 770 0 0 0
x10-23
π+π-

0.8
Omega ω0 Self uu, dd 782 0 0 0
x10-22
π+π-π0

20
Phi φ Self ss 1020 0 0 0
x10-23
K+K-,K0K0

10.6
D D+ D- cd 1869.4 0 +1 0
x10-13
K + _, e + _

4.2
D D0 D0 cu 1864.6 0 +1 0 [K,μ,e] + _
x10-13
4.7
D D+ s D- s cs 1969 +1 +1 0 K+_
x10-13
0.8
J/Psi J/ψ Self cc 3096.9 0 0 0
x10-20
e+e-, μ+μ-...

1.5
B B- B+ bu 5279 0 0 -1 D0 + _
x10-12
1.5
B B0 B0 db 5279 0 0 -1
x10-12
D0 + _

Bs Bs0 Bs0 sb 5370 -1 0 -1 ... B-s + _


1.3
Upsilon ϒ Self bb 9460.4 0 0 0
x10-20
e+e-, μ+μ-..

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 K0s and K0L represent symmetric and antisymmetric mixtures of the
quark combinations down-antistrange and antidown-strange.

2* The neutral eta meson is considered to be a quark combination

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


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