Consider the Possibility That a Neutron Could Decay into a Proton

question 21

Multiple Choice

Consider the possibility that a neutron could decay into a proton and a pion.What,if any,of the following conservation laws would this process violate?

• A) conservation of energy
• B) conservation of lepton number
• C) conservation of charge
• D) conservation of baryon number
• E) None of the above laws would be violated.

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