Assuming particles can be formed due to thermal interactions alone, calculate the minimum temperature required for the creation of, a) neutron.
Assuming particles can be formed due to thermal interactions alone, calculate the minimum temperature required for the creation of, a) neutron.
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Transcribed Image Text:Assuming particles can be formed due to thermal interactions alone, calculate the minimum temperature
required for the creation of,
a) neutron.
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Concept and Principle:
- Mass-energy equivalence says that mass and energy are the same, mass can be converted into energy and energy into mass. Thus rest mass energy of a particle is defined as the energy that is stored in a particle due to its rest mass or invariant mass.
- For a particle to be formed through thermal interaction, the thermal energy should be equal to its rest mass energy. Thus the temperature required will be given by,
Here m is the mass of the particle, c is the speed of light, and k is the Boltzmann constant. Here mc2 is the rest mass energy of the particle.
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