Eta meson

π+ + π0 + π−η′ :π+ + π− + η or(ρ0 + γ) / (π+ + π− + γ) orThe eta (η) and eta prime meson (η′) are isosinglet mesons made of a mixture of up, down and strange quarks and their antiquarks. The charmed eta meson (ηc) and bottom eta meson (ηb) are similar forms of quarkonium; they have the same spin and parity as the (light) η defined, but are made of charm quarks and bottom quarks respectively. The top quark is too heavy to form a similar meson, due to its very fast decay. The eta (η) and eta prime meson (η′) are isosinglet mesons made of a mixture of up, down and strange quarks and their antiquarks. The charmed eta meson (ηc) and bottom eta meson (ηb) are similar forms of quarkonium; they have the same spin and parity as the (light) η defined, but are made of charm quarks and bottom quarks respectively. The top quark is too heavy to form a similar meson, due to its very fast decay. The eta was discovered in pion–nucleon collisions at the Bevatron in 1961 by A. Pevsner et al. at a time when the proposal of the Eightfold Way was leading to predictions and discoveries of new particles from symmetry considerations. The difference between the mass of the η and that of the η′ is larger than the quark model can naturally explain. This 'η–η′ puzzle' can be resolved by the 't Hooft instanton mechanism, whose 1/N realization is also known as the Witten–Veneziano mechanism.Specifically, in QCD, the higher mass of the η' is very significant, since it is associated with the axial UA(1) classical symmetry, which is explicitly broken through the chiral anomaly upon quantization; thus its mass is not 'protected' to be small, like that of the η. The η particles belong to the 'pseudo-scalar' nonet of mesons which have spin J = 0 and negative parity, and η and η′ have zero total isospin, I, and zero strangeness and hypercharge. Each quark which appears in an η particle is accompanied by its antiquark (the particle overall is 'flavourless') and all the main quantum numbers are zero. The basic SU(3) symmetry theory of quarks for the three lightest quarks, which only takes into account the strong force, predicts corresponding particles