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Homework Statement
Write down the quark content of the following particles, made of (u; d; s) and their antiquarks:
(a) A meson with strangeness S = 1, and isospin component I3 = 1/2
(b) An antibaryon with strangeness S = 0, and isospin I3 = -3/2
The Attempt at a Solution
a) A meson consists of one quark and one antiquark. The strangeness comes from an anti-strange quark and an up quark satisfies the isospin So we have [itex]u\bar{s}[/itex]
b) The antibaryon must have three antiquarks and in this case none can be strange. In order to have isospin of -3/2 we must have three antiup quarks, ie [itex]\bar{u}\bar{u}\bar{u}[/itex]
My answer for a) is correct and b) seems ok.
Here is the given solution to b).
"An antibaryon contains three antiquarks. There can be no strange antiquarks if S=0 Also,
isospin component I3 = -3/2 tell us there must be three antiup quarks. So the answer is [itex]\bar{d}\bar{d}\bar{d}[/itex]."
This is just a typo at the end, right?
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