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Three generations of matter

Quarks come in six different types, with six antipartners . On the A-level syllabus, you need to know about three: up, and down (which make up everyday matter), and strange. The other three are called charm, top and bottom. Three generations of matter. Source: the Particle Adventure.

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Three generations of matter

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  1. Quarks come in six different types, with six antipartners. On the A-level syllabus, you need to know about three: up, and down (which make up everyday matter), and strange. The other three are called charm, top and bottom.

  2. Three generations of matter Source: the Particle Adventure

  3. Protons and Neutrons: the most common hadrons

  4. Types of particle

  5. How to make a hadron Colour Charge Electric Charge

  6. So how do we find quarks?

  7. Conservations Charge Baryon number Lepton number ? Strangeness

  8. Decays

  9. Weak decay In weak decay, you can ‘swap’ a down or strange quark for an up quark. This process creates one new pair of particles to conserve charge.

  10. Strong decay In strong decay, the quarks in the initial particle are rearranged to make different particles. But quark-antiquark pairs can be created, so long as they are of the same type.

  11. Quark flow diagrams

  12. How forces work

  13. Any questions?

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