Thursday, September 8, 2016

cp violation - Why does the pion not undergo netural particle oscillation?


K, B and now D mesons exhibit neutral particle oscillation, where we see the spontaneous interchange between a particle and its antiparticle, i.e. K0¯K0, B0¯B0 and D0¯D0.


My question is, why do neutral pions π0 not exhibit the same behaviour? We never hear of "pion oscillation" π0¯π0...



Answer



Answer transposed from a comment: the K, D, B have nonzero "flavor quantum number" (strangeness, charm, and beauty, to be specific). The analogy you should pursue is the J/ψ or "charmonium," made of a charm quark and charm anti-quark.


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