Forbidden by electric-charge conservation. The initial bottom quark has electric charge , while the displayed final electric charges sum to . Therefore no Standard Model Feynman diagram, at tree level or any loop order, can realize this channel.
This is an intentionally disallowed process, not a transcription correction. The charge-conserving semileptonic bottom decay instead has an Electron and an antineutrino of Electron flavour, while a Positron accompanies the conjugate antiquark decay. Replacing the displayed particles silently would change the requested classification.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 310 2 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The reaction maintaining chemical equilibrium isFor and negligible chemical potentials, the Electron and Positron are dilute and obey the nonrelativistic equilibrium number density. Including two spin states for each particle,The photon number density is , so the electron-positron equilibrium pair abundance below the electron mass isIf denotes only one of the charge-conjugate species, this expression is divided by two.