can i ask about W bosons ?

[Widdekind]

if matter (electron) and anti-matter (anti-neutrino) can interconvert, to charged pions, via charged W bosons

 

[math]e^- + \bar{\nu} \leftrightarrow W^- \leftrightarrow \pi^-[/math]

 

(does anybody disagree w/ the above reactions?)

 

 

and if matter (electron) and anti-matter (positron) can interconvert, to neutral pions

 

[math]e^+ + e^- + \gamma \leftrightarrow \pi^0[/math]

 

(does anybody disagree w/ the above reactions?)

 

 

then why couldn't the neutral W boson be involved?

 

W bosons seem to be the pathways by which Fermions can interconvert, to-and-from Leptons & Hadrons. Is that true ?

[swansont]

What neutral W? I know of the W^± and Z⁰

And if there was one, AFAIK it wouldn't decay into gammas, which require the electromagnetic interaction. The W mediates weak interactions.

[Widdekind]

can you conceptualize, a charged W boson, as some sort of "crash zone", between matter and anti-matter ?

 

[math]e^- + \bar{\nu} \longrightarrow W^-[/math]

 

could you correctly claim, that the matter electron collided with the antimatter anti-neutrino, into a "crash zone complex", embodied by the charged W boson ?

 

If so, seemingly W bosons represent what occurs, when antimatter and matter encounter and collide and combine...

 

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can the following occur:

 

[math]e^- + e^+ \longrightarrow Z^0[/math]

 

?

 

Symmetry would suggest:

 

[math]e^- + \bar{\nu} \longrightarrow W^-[/math]

[math]e^+ + \nu \longrightarrow W^+[/math]

[math]e^- + e^+ \longrightarrow W^0[/math]

 

But according to the Electro-Weak theory, [math]W^0 \rightarrow Z^0[/math] (Weinberg mixing angle, etc.)...

 

so could and electron & positron "crash" into a [math]Z^0[/math] boson ?

[Widdekind]

electrons + antielectrons <----> Z0

 

evidently couple together, during decays of Higgs bosons (according to the book by Jim Baggott, Higgs)