RE: What Are Bosons?
September 12, 2015 at 4:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2015 at 4:38 pm by Alex K.)
(September 12, 2015 at 2:19 pm)LastPoet Wrote: No Rhonda, protons are a composition of quarks. Protons are composed of 3 quarks as are neutrons and all others hadrons. Mesons have two. IIRC. I think Alex is more up to date and has more knowledge in this than me. While hadrons, mesons and leptons obey Pauli's exclusion principle, bosons do not. In a nuts and bolts explanation they are the force carriers between those particles. Correct me if Im wrong, my physics are a little rusty.
That's almost right, except that all Mesons are Bosons, and are also hadrons.
Hadrons = Mesons + Baryons, where Baryons are fermions because the contain an odd # of quarks, and mesons are bosons because they contain an even number of quarks.
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