Exploring the Standard Model of Matter and Energy

1. THE STANDARD MODEL • What’s fundamental • What’s in a name

2. Organizational table(s) • Periodic table • Organizes atoms by properties • Reading the table • Atoms and even nuclei are not fundamental • Scale of subatomic matter (see illustration next slide)

4. Standard model chart • Organizes all of matter and energy (well most of it) • Matter Vs. Antimatter • Charge • Annihilation • Pair production

5. Bosons Vs. Fermions • Spin

6. Fermion Flavors • Leptons and Quarks

7. Leptons • Solitary particles • Charge on particles Vs. antiparticles • Generations or Families

8. Leptons • Lepton family conservation • Neutrino’s and conservation laws

9. Quarks • Generations or families • Charge • Combinations • Particles Vs. antiparticles

10. Combinations of quarks – Hadrons • Baryons • Examples of Baryon particles • Spin and consequences

11. Combinations of quarks - Hadrons • Mesons • Examples of Mesons • Spin and consequences (see illustration)

12. Bose-Einstein Condensate

13. Bosons (single particles) • Spin (got it yet?) • Mediate forces (Fields Vs. exchange particles) • Electromagnetic • Weak • Electroweak • Strong • Gravity

15. Mediate decays

16. Mediate collisions and annihilations