Timeline for Why saying that during electron capture the electron is converted to a neutrino?
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| May 11, 2019 at 23:39 | comment | added | Winston | In any case, thank you for your answer and help. I don't want you to think I discard them, I am just a bit passionate and focused on understanding is all. | |
| May 11, 2019 at 23:37 | comment | added | Winston | Well actually this is exactly my point. I was writing this question during the meantime: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/479464/… | |
| May 11, 2019 at 23:25 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | @Exocytosis It's simple conservation laws that make a "reaction" in your sense between proton and positron imposslble at ordinary energies. Conserving energy, charge and the other quantum numbers, you simply can't make the proton and the positron become something else without providing lots of additional energy like in a collider. | |
| May 11, 2019 at 23:18 | comment | added | Winston | I use the verb react as in chemistry. If a proton decays into a positron, they obviously did not react with each other, they are on opposite ends of the reaction. I tried looking for "proton-positron scattering" but my search engine (duckduckgo) doesnt give useful results. Is it different than the positron and proton on opposite ends or not? | |
| May 11, 2019 at 22:55 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | @Exocytosis What do you mean by claiming that the positron does not react with the proton? Search the web for "proton-positron scattering". Or look at $\beta^+$-decay: A proton decays into a neutron, a positron, and a neutrino. And neither nature nor our models of it care whether we find them "satisfying", they work nevertheless. | |
| May 11, 2019 at 22:47 | comment | added | Winston | Yet apparently a neutron and an electron may react with the electron antiparticle, the positron, while neither the proton or the neutrino will. So it seems reasonable to me to ask what makes the neutron compatible with the electron antiparticle, even more though after it emerged from the combination of a proton with an electron. Now I understand the theory says those are black boxes, my questions are meaningless, yet I don't know how you can be satisfied with this. | |
| May 11, 2019 at 22:22 | history | answered | ACuriousMind♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |