Saturday, July 6, 2019

particle physics - Weak decay iff or if strangeness changes?



I know that for a decay if the strangeness changes then the decay is a weak decay because strangeness is conserved in both strong decays and electromagnetic decays. However, is it also true that if a weak decay occurs the strangeness must also change? i.e. do we have: $$\text{weak decay} \iff \Delta S\ne0$$ $$\text{or}$$ $$\text{weak decay} \Leftarrow \Delta S\ne0$$ If it is the latter, is their another necessary and sufficient condition (apart from looking at timescales) to see if a decay is weak?




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