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PARTICLE PHYSICS

PARTICLE PHYSICS. INTRODUCTION. The recorded tracks of sub atomic particles resulting from the collision of two protons in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Image courtesy of CERN. THE SMALLEST THINGS. Strange quark Charge -1/3. Up quark Charge +2/3.

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PARTICLE PHYSICS

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  1. PARTICLE PHYSICS

  2. INTRODUCTION The recorded tracks of sub atomic particles resulting from the collision of two protons in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Image courtesy of CERN.

  3. THE SMALLEST THINGS Strange quarkCharge -1/3 Up quarkCharge +2/3 Down quarkCharge -1/3 Above: The Standard Model of particle physics showing all six quarks with leptons (electron-like particles) and bosons (force carriers). Image courtesy of CERN. Left: Three of the six quarks with their antiparticles Antiup quarkCharge -2/3 Antidown quarkCharge +1/3 Antistrange quark +1/3

  4. SLIGHTLY BIGGER THINGS Baryons Mesons Kaons Neutron Above: A bubble chamber image showing the decay of a moving K+ meson (image left) into other charged particles. The charged decay products are shown spiralling in the chamber’s applied magnetic field. Image courtesy of CERN. Pions Proton

  5. RULES FOR COMBINATION: ELECTRIC CHARGE The electrical charge of individual quarks has to add up to a whole number. Particles cannot have fractional charge. Charge +1 Charge 0 Charge +2/3 Charge -2/3 Charge -1/3 Charge -1/3 X Charge +1/3 Charge +1/3 Charge +1/3

  6. RULES FOR COMBINATION: COLOUR CHARGE The colour charge of individual quarks have to “cancel out”. All particles must be “colour neutral”

  7. CONSERVATIONS Particle interactions must obey certain rules, conserving certain numbers. + Electric charge Baryon number Lepton number Strangeness

  8. HOW FORCES WORK

  9. BETA DECAY

  10. ROUNDUP Quarks are amongst the smallest things in the universe They combine to make baryons and mesons Other particles called leptons aren’t made of quarks Quarks combine according to certain rules (charge and colour) Particle interactions conserve certain numbers and not others Forces are carried through particles called bosons Beta decay is governed by the weak force

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