Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Why When a proton reacts with a antiproton, the m number is not conserved?

In order to be considered a nuclear process, we must obey the Law of conservation of m number. However, the reaction of a proton and antiproton releases only gamma rays with 0 rest m hence the m number is not conserved as the (m of a proton + m of antiproton) = 2u Why is this so?

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