Elementary Particle Physics in a Nutshell

Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics

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A machine used to accelerate particles to high speeds and thus high energy compared to their rest-mass energy. A process in which a particle meets its corresponding antiparticle and both disappear. The energy appears in some other form, perhaps as a different particle and its antiparticle and their energy , perhaps as many mesons, perhaps as a single neutral boson.

The produced particles may be any combination allowed by conservation of energy and momentum and of all the charge types. Material made from antifermions. We define the fermions that are common in our universe as matter and their antiparticles as antimatter. The asymmetry of the universe between these two classes of particles is a deep puzzle for which we are not yet completely sure of an explanation. For every fermion type there is another fermion type that has exactly the same mass but the opposite value of all other charges quantum numbers.

This is called the antiparticle. For example, the antiparticle of an electron is a particle of positive electric charge called the positron. Bosons also have antiparticles except for those that have zero value for all charges, for example a photon or a composite boson made from a quark and its corresponding antiquark. In this case there is no distinction between the particle and the antiparticle, they are the same object. An accelerator designed to maximize the production of B mesons. The properties of the B mesons are then studied with special detectors.

A hadron made from three quarks. The proton uud and the neutron udd are both baryons. They may also contain additional quark-antiquark pairs. The theory of an expanding universe that begins as an infinitely dense and hot medium. The initial instant is called the Big Bang. All particles are eitherfermions or bosons. The particles associated with all the fundamental interactions forces are bosons. Composite particles with even numbers of fermion constituents quarks are also bosons. The major European international accelerator laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland.

A quantum number carried by a particle.

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Determines whether the particle can participate in an interaction process. A particle with electric charge has electrical interactions; one with h2 charge has h2 interactions, etc. The observation that electric charge is conserved in any process of transformation of one group of particles into another. An accelerator in which two beams traveling in opposite directions are steered together to provide high-energy collisions between the particles in one beam and those in the other.

The quantum number that determines participation in h2 interactions. Quarks and gluons carry nonzero colour charges. The property of the h2 interaction that quarks or gluons are never found separately but only inside colour-neutral composite objects. When a quantity e. Matter that is in space but is not visible to us because it emits no radiation by which to observe it.

Physicists speculate that there is also dark matter between the galaxies but this is harder to verify. A process in which a particle disappears and in its place different particles appear. The sum of the masses of the produced particles is always less than the mass of the original particle. The least massive electrically-charged particle, hence absolutely stable. It is the most common lepton, with electric charge In the Standard Model, electromagnetic and weak interactions are related unified ; physicists use the term electroweak to encompass both of them. What occurs when two particles collide or a single particle decays.

Particle theories predict the probabilities of various possible events occurring when many similar collisions or decays are studied. They cannot predict the outcome for any single event. Named after particle physics pioneer Enrico Fermi. As a consequence of this peculiar angular momentum, fermions obey a rule called the Pauli Exclusion Principle, which states that no two fermions can exist in the same state at the same time.

Many of the properties of ordinary matter arise because of this rule.

Electrons, protons, and neutrons are all fermions, as are all the fundamental matter particles, both quarks and leptons. An experiment in which the beam of particles from an accelerator is directed at a stationary or nearly stationary target. The target may be a solid, a tank containing liquid or gas, or a gas jet.

The name used for the different quarks types up, down, strange, charm, bottom, top and for the different lepton types electron, muon, tau. For each charged lepton flavour there is a corresponding neutrino flavour. Each flavour of quark and charged lepton has a different mass. For neutrinos we do not yet know if they have a mass or what the masses are. In the Standard Model the fundamental interactions are the electromagnetic, weak, strong and gravitational interactions.

There is at least one more fundamental interaction in the theory that is responsible for fundamental particle masses. Five interaction types are all that are needed to explain all observed physical phenomena. A particle with no internal substructure.

All other objects are made from these. A set of one of each charge type of quark and lepton, grouped by mass. The first generation contains the up and down quarks, the electron and the electron neutrino. These include the mesons and baryons. Such particles participate in residual strong interactions. A process in which a particle decays or it responds to a force due to the presence of another particle as in a collision.

Also used to mean the underlying property of the theory that causes such effects. A meson containing a strange quark and an anti-up or anti-down quark, or an anti-strange quark and an up or down quark. A fundamental fermion that does not participate in strong interactions. The electrically-charged leptons are the electron, the muon, the tau, and their antiparticles. Electrically-neutral leptons are called neutrinos. LHC will collide protons into protons at a center-of-mass energy of about 14 TeV. When completed in the year , it will be the most powerful particle accelerator in the world.

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It is hoped that it will unlock many of the secrets of particle physics. An abbreviation for linear accelerator, that is, an accelerator that has no bends in it. The rest mass of a particle is the mass defined by the energy of the isolated free particle at rest, divided by the speed of light squared. When particle physicists use the word "mass" they always mean the "rest mass" of the object in question. A hadron made from an even number of quark constituents The basic structure of most mesons is one quark and one antiquark. The second flavour of charged leptons in order of increasing mass , with electric charge The outer layers of a particle detector capable of registering tracks of charged particles.

Except for the chargeless neutrinos, only muons reach this layer from the collision point. Having a net charge equal to zero. Unless otherwise specified, it usually refers to electric charge.

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A lepton with no electric charge. Neutrinos participate only in weak and gravitational interactions and are therefore very difficult to detect. There are three known types of neutrinos, all of which are very light and could possibly have zero mass. A baryon with electric charge zero; it is a fermion with a basic structure of two down quarks and one up quark held together by gluons.

The neutral component of an atomic nucleus is made from neutrons. Different isotopes of the same element are distinguished by having different numbers of neutrons in their nucleus. A collection of neutrons and protons that forms the core of an atom plural: Fermions obey a rule called the Pauli Exclusion Principle, which states that no two fermions can exist in the same state at the same time. Protons have a basic structure of two up quarks and one down quark bound together by gluons.

The nucleus of a hydrogen atom is a proton. A nucleus with electric charge Z contains Z protons; therefore the number of protons is what distinguishes the different chemical elements. The laws of physics that apply on very small scales. The essential feature is that electric charge, momentum, and angular momentum,as well as charges, come in discrete amounts called quanta. A fundamental fermion that has strong interactions. Interaction between objects that do not carry a charge but do contain constituents that have that charge. For most Academic and Educational uses no royalties will be charged although you are required to obtain a license and comply with the license terms and conditions.

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