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In Addition to Charge and Baryon Number, Another Conserved Quantity X\mathrm{X}

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In addition to charge and baryon number, another conserved quantity in particle interactions is lepton number. The six leptons have lepton number +1 , and their antiparticles have lepton number -1 . The lepton numbers for each generation (electron, muon, tau) are separately conserved. For example, an electron has electron-lepton number +1 , while the electron antineutrino has electron-lepton number -1 . What is the missing particle X\mathrm{X} in the following decay? π+X+vμ\quad \pi^{+} \rightarrow X+v_{\mu}


A) μ0\mu^{0}
B) μ\mu^{-}
C) π0\pi 0
D) μ+\mu^{+}
E) π\pi^{-}

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