The antineutrino in beta^- decay is needed to conserve:

  1. energy, momentum and lepton number
  2. charge only
  3. mass only
  4. nucleon number only
Answer

A) energy, momentum and lepton number

Without it, these would not balance. SLO P-11-F-10 · Knowledge

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