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We have experience from everyday life of the electromagnetic and the gravitational interactions. Their form is similar, but the relative strength is really different.
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The most notable exception to the large lifetimes rule is the top quark, which decays weakly, but very rapidly, due to its very large mass.
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After Max Born, 1882–1970, from Germany, he taught in Göttingen, Cambridge and Edinburgh and was awarded the Nobel prize in 1954, for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function.
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These scalar mesons are actually pseudoscalars, because their wave function changes sign under parity. Parity P is the transformation that changes sign to the space coordinates: \({\mathrm {P}}: \vec {x}\rightarrow - \vec {x}\).
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D’Auria, S. (2018). Introduction to Particle Physics. In: Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93855-4_6
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