Finding Particle Combinations for Conservation Laws

[rwooduk]

Write down a reaction by which a K+ can be produced in a proton-proton collision and give the quark content of each particle involved.



Conservation of energy, charge, baryon number, lepton number, strangeness and isospin



How do I go about doing this? it has already given the p + p -> K+ reaction, I am guessing I have to determine the other products that will allow conservation of the laws above? Do I just pick random particles, put them into the RHS of the equation and see if they obey conservations?

Thanks for any help on this.

 

[mfb]

im guessing I have to determine the other products that will allow conservation of the laws above?

Right.

Do I just pick random particles, put them into the RHS of the equation and see if they obey conservations?

I would pick non-random particles according to the laws that would be violated by p + p -> K+ in order to fix them. There are many possible solutions, all will work, but there is a single easiest one.

 

[rwooduk]

Right.
I would pick non-random particles according to the laws that would be violated by p + p -> K+ in order to fix them. There are many possible solutions, all will work, but there is a single easiest one.

excellent, thanks for the pointer!