Answer: All Particles Carry Elementary Charge +-e?

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Do all particles like pions, kaons, sigma, tau, whatever, all carry the elementary charge +-e ?
 
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If the quark inner structure has total electric charge "e" in absolute value,then,yes...

Search for their quark structure.It's the only way to determine their electric charge.

Daniel.
 
quasar987 said:
Do all particles like pions, kaons, sigma, tau, whatever, all carry the elementary charge +-e ?

Well, the tau is a lepton... with no inner quark structure, with a charge (like all leptons, besides for all the neutrinos partners) of 1-.
 
pions are found with three possible charges: +1, 0, -1. Also there are baryons with charges of 2 or 3.
 
mathman said:
Also there are baryons with charges of 2 or 3.
Really? Which? I only know of protons and neutrons.
 
I vaguely remember in the \Delta decaplet this object
\Delta^{++}

So that's an example.You can search for more.

Daniel.
 
Wow thanks, I searched and came up with many more, there are your deltas, as quasar said the sigmas, lambda, Xi Cascades etc.
Check this out if you want
 
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