What is an antiparticle?

An antiparticle has the same mass but opposite charge, baryon number, lepton number, and strangeness as it's corresponding particle.

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What is the antiparticle of the proton?

Antiproton (p)\left(\overline{p}\right)

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What is the antiparticle of the electron?

Positron (e+ OR  β+)

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What is the antiparticle of the neutrino?

antineutrino (ν)\left(\overline{\nu}\right)

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What is the relative charge of the antiproton?

-1

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What is the mass of the positron?

The mass of the positron is the same as the mass of the electron (9.11 x 10-31 kg).


Particles have the same mass as their corresponding antiparticle.

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What happens during pair production?

During pair production a particle and it's corresponding antiparticle are produced from a single photon. 

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What happens during annihilation? 

When a particle meets it's antiparticle they annihilate. 


The particles cease to exist and their energy is split evenly between two photons.

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What process is this diagram showing?

Pair production

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What process is shown in the diagram?

Annihilation

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What is meant by the term rest mass energy?

Rest mass energy is the energy of a particle due to it's mass alone.


Another way of phrasing it is the energy of a particle when it is stationary.

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