Isospin Definition and 66 Threads

TL;DR Summary: Given a pentaquark: (a) Determine the isospin multiplet it belongs to. (b) Calculate a kind of a Gottfried Sum Rule for this pentaquark-neutrino or -antineutrino scattering. Hello everybody, I'm having a bit of a trouble with the exercise below as it deals with a pentaquark and...

In Quarks & Leptons: An Introductory Course in Modern Particle Physics by Halzen and Martin page 42 reads: I do not understand what the issue is, however. What do they mean by "we want... to transform in exactly the same way"? Didn't they just show that they do transform in exactly the...

In wikipedia you can find this neat tables with the hypercharge and isospin of a ton of particles and bosons. What I want to know is: what are the values of Isospin and Hypercharge for the W3 and B bosons? Now, I know electroweak unification, don't worry about that. I know W3 and B got mixed...

Hi, I have attached the question to this post. I understand on the process on getting to the answer in that you use $$\arrowvert 2, 2\rangle=\arrowvert 1,1\rangle \otimes \arrowvert 1,1\rangle$$ and apply the isospin-lowering operator to obtain $$\arrowvert 2,1 \rangle$$. Then I understand you...

I got the I3 values for the tau(minus) to be -1, as charge is -1 and Y=0. For muon(minus) i got I3 to be -1 too using the same equation and the anti electron neutrino to have an isospin of zero (since Q=0, Y=0). This shows I3 to be conserved (which is needed for strong interaction i believe)...

How does the isospin operator I_3 act on a state |ud>, where u ist an up- and d a Down quark?

Hi all, I have a question on G-parity. I know it's defined as ## G = exp(-i\pi I_{y})C ##, with ##I_y## being the second component of the isospin and ##C## is the C-parity. In other words, the G-parity should be the C-parity followed by a 180° rotation around the second axis of the isospin...

Hello everybody! I have a question regarding the forbidden decay ##\rho^0 \rightarrow \pi^0\pi^0##, but it is a general doubt. My book states that one of the reasons why the decay is forbidden is Bose-Einstein statistics, the final state of two equal pions must be in an antisymmetric state...

Summary: Different sign in the combination of two ##\textbf{1/2}## isospins with opposite third component Hello everybody! I was doing an exercise regarding isospin and I noticed something from the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients that made me think. For example, if I consider the combination...

Homework Statement I am trying to improve my understanding of the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients. I am looking at page 5 of the following document https://courses.physics.illinois.edu/phys570/fa2013/chapter3.pdf Homework Equations I have derived the result for the I = 3/2 quadruplet but am...

First, I'll give a little background so you guys know why I've arrived at this issue. I'm writing my BSc thesis right now, and the point of the thesis is to predict the bound states of two-nucleon systems (one bound, others not) by treating the problem as a simple QM two body problem. With a...

Wikipedia quotes weak isospin values for some particles and not for others. Why? Is the concept of weak isospin as an observable quantity not meaningful for, for example, pions?

In the electromagnetic interaction, opposite electric charges q attract each other. In the strong nuclear force, the proton p(uud) is attracted to p(uud) and the neutron n(udd), and n(udd) is attracted to p(uud) and n(udd). Both neutrons and protons have a hypercharge Y=+1, and 3rd...

Do Fermi and Gamow-Teller transitions only refer to changes in isospin , as in beta decay and orbital electron capture

What are the weak isospins (T3 values) of various hadrons, including the proton, neutron, mesons, hyperons and other hadrons? How is the weak isospin calculated for any hadron? Published sources provide T3 only for fundamental fermions, that is, quarks and leptons. In the fundamental bosonic...

The generators for the isospin symmetry are given by $$T_{+}=|\uparrow\rangle\langle\downarrow|, \qquad T_{-}=|\downarrow\rangle\langle\uparrow|, \qquad T_{3}=\frac{1}{2}(|\uparrow\rangle\langle\uparrow|-|\downarrow\rangle\langle\downarrow|),$$ where ##|\uparrow\rangle## and...

Hi, guys. A type of problem that often appears is to find the relation between cross sections of some processes. An example would be: $$\pi _{- }+ p \rightarrow K_0 + \Sigma_0$$ $$\pi _{- }+ p \rightarrow K_+ + \Sigma_-$$ $$\pi _{+}+ p \rightarrow K_+ + \Sigma_+$$ To do this, I argue that...

Hi, guys. This is actually a question about quantum mechanics, but since the context in which it appeared is particle physics, I'll post it here. On Thompson's book (page 227, equation (9.32)), we have $$T_+ |d\bar{u}\rangle = |u\bar{u}\rangle - |d\bar{d}\rangle$$ But I thought...

Hi guys! I'm trying to understand how to use the fact that the total isospin is conserved in all strong processes in the particular case (vide Griffiths, pages 118 and 119): $$ p+p \rightarrow d+\pi^+ $$ Griffiths first argues that the deuteron d has isospin I=0, because of experimental...

Consider pion states composed of ##q \bar q## pairs where ##q \in \left\{u,d \right\}## transforms under an ##SU(2)## isospin flavour symmetry. These bound states transform in the tensor product ##R_1 \otimes R_2## of two representations ##(R_1, R_2)## of ##SU(2)##. Take ##R_2## as the...

Homework Statement The deuteron is mostly a bound state of a proton and neutron with orbital angular momentum L=0 and spin S=1. To a good approximation we can neglect the proton-neutron mass difference and electromagnetic interactions, and treat the proton and neutron as two isospin components...

The decay \rho^0 \rightarrow \pi^- \pi^+ occurs with a probability of 100\%, whereas the decay \rho^0 \rightarrow \pi^0 \pi^0 does not occur in nature, due to isosphin conservation. I don't understand this. Looking at the Isospin and its third component ¦I,I_3\rangle we have in the first...

A new experimental result from BESIII finds that there is isospin violation in the decays of J/Psi mesons in a path involving scalar mesons (with a narrow width in tension with world averages) and notes that a previous experiment found isospin violation in another decay chain...

As far as I understand, ##I_{3}##, the component of isospin in a certain direction is additive, but ##I## is to be treated as a vector sum, is this correct? So, ##I_{3}=1/2## for ##u## quark, ##I_{3}=-1/2 ## for ##d## quark. Adding ##I_{3}## then for a proton we find ##I_{3}=1/2## and for a...

Could someone please help me to understand the difference between the concepts of Weak Isospin, Chirality and Helicity. In particular, I have the following questions to which I was unable to find answers so far: 1. Since both spin direction and momentum are vectors, would not their apparent...

How to use the standard techniques of projection operators to obtain the equation (1) by the first formula? Thanks

I'm having some trouble grasping the meaning of the exchange term in the Hamiltonian Heisenberg gives in his classic 1932 paper (the one typically given as the first to describe nucleons via a spin-like degree of freedom; NOTE: I realize this isn't the same as what is today called isospin, but...

Hi, I'm just getting a little confused with all the definitions here and I need some confirmation on what I say is correct or not; Isospin symmetry: The property that an interaction is independent of the T_3 value? Isospin breaking: The property that it is dependent on T_3 ? Charge symmetry...

As far as I know identical fermions are antisymmetric under exchange. Identical bosons are symmetric under exchange. Is this fact blurred when we consider isospin? Considering the wavefunction of a proton-neutron system; \psi = \psi_{space} \psi_{spin} \psi_{isospin} I'm told this needs...

Recently, I was thinking about spin and isospin. It's been a while since I've dealt with particle physics, so my knowledge may be a bit rusty. In the Standard Model, we have three interactions with associated coupling constants e, gw and gs. A particle may have three different charges Qe, Qw...

Hi people: I keep reading one day that weak isospin is exactly conserved by all interactions; other days that sometimes weak isospin is *not* conserved. Can anyone clear this one up?!

The leptons and hadrons carry the weak isospin charge. What allows the weak bosons do carry the charge? Is it because they have a mass?

Hi, I read Georgi's Lie algebras in Particle Physics 2nd chap5 and have two questions. 1) In the beginning he mentioned Heisenberg regarded neutron is composed as proton and electron, the force between nucleons are exchanging electrons. My question is, what is the experimental evidence...

Homework Statement What relations can you derive from isospin conservation for the cross sections of the following scattering processes: K^{+} + p → K^{+} + p K^{+} + n → K^{0} + p K^{0} + n → K^{0} + n The Attempt at a Solution I do not really have my own solution as I've...

Homework Statement why the isospin wave function was not considered in quark model? only the others (flavour, color, space, spin) are considered? Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution

Hi all what is meant isospin asymmetry for nuclear matter ? thanks alot

I'm studying the decay K->ππ and I have some doubts on the isospin decomposition. We know that the state (\pi\pi) can have total isospin 0 or 2. Now, if we remember that in the isospin representation we have |\pi^+\langle=|1,1\langle, |\pi^0\rangle=|1,0\rangle and |\pi^-\rangle=|1,-1\rangle...

What exactly is isospin and what does it have to do with the strong force?

Homework Statement Hey I just want to clarify something. In particle physics, isospin is a flavor quantum number. Is it isospin or the z component of isospin which is conserved in particle interactions Homework Equations electron neutrino + proton -> electron pion+ + proton The...

I had always assumed that the simplest possible standard model Higgs particle had isospin 0, but when I tried to verify this assumption I read some conflicting opinions (not to mention discussions about more complicated Higgs mechanisms). I also read conflicting views about the conservation of...

Hello, So I'm reading about isospin in Griffith's Introduction to Elementary Particles, but the concept seems rather fishy, and I'm not quite sure what to make out of it. For example, if p and n (proton and neutron) are seen as different states of the same system, then what does...

My question is simple, though the answer is probably not. What is isospin? (Here, I refer to the strong isospin introduced by Cassen and Condon). From the algebra it is clear that there are analogies to be drawn with the intrinsic spin that arises in angular momentum conservation, but how far...

I am reading Griffiths' introduction to elementary particles and I am confused about problem 4.33a in that book. It says that given there is no isotope of hydrogen of weight 4, nor of lithium of weight 4, what can we say about the isospin of an alpha particle? Thanks in advance!

For SU(2) the three represented gauge fields are A_\mu^1, A_\mu^2 and A_\mu^3 and for U(1) the gauge field is B_\mu. The A_\mu^3 and B_\mu are electrically neutral. The photon \gamma and Z particle are combinations of these. My interest is the dimensions of the following parameters...

I am deeply confused about the following and I'd really appreciate it if anyone could help! Consider a charged hadron such as a proton. Amongst the state-independent properties that define a proton are strong isospin Iz=1/2 and charge Q=e. Now, the total Hamiltonian for a proton is Hs...

Hello! I have difficulty trying with the interpretation of: (\frac{1}{2}) \otimes (\frac{1}{2}) \otimes (\frac{1}{2}) = (\frac{3}{2}) \otimes (\frac{1}{2}) \otimes (\frac{1}{2}) If I´m right this is the SU(2) irrep for isospin but what does this mean? Proton = Neutron?

So I've been playing around with different electroweak lagrangians (sourceless, higgsless, unbroken, broken, etc), and finding the equations of motion for them. Everything looks about right, but the issue I'm having is when you add in the masses of the weak bosons(no higgs though).This breaks...

Homework Statement There are a lot of similar problems so it is a general question, if you have a nuclear reaction with two particles before, and two afther the process ¿How do you calculate if the Isospin is conserved?¿or the angular momentum?. For example(it could be any other) we have...

I'm losing my mind trying to differentiate spin, isospin, weak isospin; then there's chirality, helicity - i must be dyslexic and quantumly challenged. Since it would be a monumental undetaking to do this online, does anyone know of a reliable source i can access online (other than wikipedia...

Homework Statement Part A) Establish which of the following combinations of particles can exist in a state of I=1 : a) \pi^0\pi^0 b) \pi^+\pi^- c) \pi^+\pi^+ d) \Sigma^0\pi^0 e) \Lambda^0\pi^0 Part B) of the problem is: In what states of isospin may exist the following systems? f)...