Is beta decay a weak charge-current processes?

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Im try to understand this paper

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/vie...

and see if I correctly understand which processes are charge-current processes, and which are charge neutral, as listed in Figure 1. Thanks
 
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Every process where charged particles appear or disappear is charged-current.
 
mfb said:
Every process where charged particles appear or disappear is charged-current.
##e^-e^+\to \gamma\gamma##
 
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... you know what I mean.
Weak processes only of course, and pair production/annihilation does not count.
 
mfb said:
... you know what I mean.
Weak processes only of course, and pair production/annihilation does not count.
Yes, I know what you mean. My point is that someone who is not a particle physicist might not.
 

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