Can Kaon Decay Violate Lepton Number Conservation?

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Homework Statement


I am asked to draw a feynman diagram of [itex]K^- \rightarrow \mu \nu[/itex]

Homework Equations


[itex]K^-[/itex] consist of [itex]s\bar{u}[/itex]

The Attempt at a Solution


I wonder what the direcion of the arrows should be, my guess is something like the attached image.
edit: Ah, where the left u shoudl be an s and the right u should be an antiup. (attached the wrong pic)
 
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  • Feynman diagram with a quark line labelled u entering a vertex at top and leaving as u, a W⁻ boson line down to a lower vertex, and a muon μ and antineutrino ν_μ leaving the lower vertex.
    Kaondecay.png
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That decay can't happen, can it? Doesn't it violate lepton number conservation?