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Garlic
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Hello,
In my understanding, decay of quarks should give leptons of the same generation as the quark has, like in a basic way, neutron decaying into proton and an electron. Because of this I have trouble understanding why the strange quark turns directy into up quark, an electron and an electron neutrino in the decay of omega baryon. Why doesn't the strange quark decay give off a muon and a muon neutrino instead of electron and electron neutrino?
In my understanding, decay of quarks should give leptons of the same generation as the quark has, like in a basic way, neutron decaying into proton and an electron. Because of this I have trouble understanding why the strange quark turns directy into up quark, an electron and an electron neutrino in the decay of omega baryon. Why doesn't the strange quark decay give off a muon and a muon neutrino instead of electron and electron neutrino?