Particle Physics Exercise 1

A1. How are baryons different from mesons?

A2. How many different baryon combinations can you make with n different
quark flavors?
A3. Using four quarks u, c, s, and d, construct a table of all baryon species. How
many carry strangeness of +1? +2? +3?
A4. Using four quarks u, c, s, and d, construct a table of all meson species. How
many carry strangeness of +1? +2? +3?
B. All of the following processes are forbidden according to the standard
model. For each process, cite the conservation law or conservation laws
violated :
a)
b)
c)
d)

C1. Sketch the lowest order Feynman diagram representing Delbruck scattering
+ + .
C2. Sketch all next-to-lowest order Feynman diagrams representing Delbruck
scattering.