Solution

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Use and . In the first reaction a proton can join the incoming to form the component of the neutral pion, leaving . In the second, a pair can annihilate into a gluon which creates ; the remaining joins in the outgoing kaon, leaving . Thus
baryon number is one in both cases. Strong strangeness conservation provides a separate check: the first baryon has strangeness ; the second has strangeness because the outgoing carries . The Feynman diagrams show representative quark-line flavour rearrangement and pair-annihilation topologies. Bound hadrons require nonperturbative binding, so a single drawn gluon is not an exclusive cross-section calculation.
Figure 1.
Original representative quark-line diagrams: flavour rearrangement and u-antiu annihilation into an s-antis pair
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