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FERMIONS (Particles)
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A. Quarks
1. Types
a. Up
1. Has 2/3 of a Unit of Positive
Electric Charge
2. Has a Strangeness of 0
b. Down
1. Has 1/3 of a Unit of Negative
Electric Charge
2. Has a Strangeness of 0
3. Up and Down are Lightest quarks
c. Charm
1. Has 2/3 of a Unit of Postive
Electric Charge
2. Has a Strangeness of 0
d. Strange
1. Has 1/3 of a Unit of Negative
Electric Charge
2. Has a Strangeness of -1
e. Top (Truth)
1. Essential to the Electroweak Theory
f. Beauty
2. Make up Neutrons, Protons, Hadrons
a. Neutron is made of 2 Down Quarks and 1 Up Quark
1. Will decay if not bound within the atom
2. Can decay into a proton, electron and
neutrino
b. Proton is made of 2 Up Quarks and 1 Down Quark
1. Decay may occur but because of theoretical
length of lifetime (approx 10^30) it may
be difficult to observe
2. One possible decay is from proton into
positron and 2 neutrinos
3. 32 theoretical decay modes for a proton
c. Nucleons
1. Neutrons and Protons
2. Dark matter is not made of Nucleons
d. Hadrons
1. Made of Quarks
2. Include protons, neutrons and pions
e. Pions
1. Also known as the pi meson
2. Types
a. Pi Zero
1. mass = 264 (electron)
2. electric charge = 0
3. mean lifetime:
0.9 x 10^-16 sec
b. Pi Plus
1. mass = 273 (electron)
2. electric charge = positive
3. mean lifetime:
2.6 x 10^-8 sec
3. Lightest member of the meson family
f. Mesons
1. Any of several subatomic particles having
integral spins and masses generally
intermediate between leptons and baryons
2. Types
a. 3 Pi-mesons
b. 4 K -mesons
1. K meson made of
down, strange, antidown
and antistrange
2. K^o meson made of
down and antistrange quarks
3. anti-K^o made of
strange, antidown quarks
c. B meson
1. consist of either
down and antibottom or
bottom and antidown quarks
2. mass = 10 (K mesons)
3. Bind nucleons to one another
4. Made of mixture of quarks and antiquarks
5. Lose energy slowly when they pass thru matter
g. Baryons
1. Any of a family of subatomic particles
including nucleon and hyperon multiplets
that participate in strong interactions,
have half integral spins, and are generally
more massive than mesons.
2. Types
a. Proton, Antiproton
b. Neutron, AntiNeutron
c. 2 Lambda Particles
d. 6 Sigma Particles
e. 4 xi particles
3. All Baryons are made of 3 Quarks
h. Hyperon
1. Subatomic particle
2. Characteristics
a. Mass greater than the nucleon
b. Can decay inot a nucleon or another
hyperon and lighter particles
c. Has 2I + 1 Charge States
1. I = isospin of particle
multiplet
e. Memos
1. Theoretical particle would be made
mostly of hyperons
3. Quarks cannot exist in an unbound state
B. Leptons
1. Types
a. Electron
1. Lightest Charged Lepton
2. Doesn't decay for it if did it would
violate the law of charge conservation
since it is the lightest charged lepton
b. Muon
1. mass = 207 electron rest masses
c. Tau
d. Electron-Neutrino
e. Muon-Neutrino
f. Tau-Neutrino
g. All these have antimatter counterparts
2. Leptons are always less massive than quarks
3. In every pair of leptons the neutrino is always
the less massive particle
4. Neutrinos dont engage in electromagnetic or strong
interactions, they interact with matter only through
weak forces
C. Fermion Characteristics
1. Spin = 1/2
2. Angular Momentum = 1/2 h
a. h = planck unit of action (10^-27 erg/sec)
F. Families
1. Up and Down Quarks, Electron and Electron-Neutrino
a. Make up ordinary matter
2. Charm and Strange Quarks, Muon and Muon-Neutrino
3. Top and Bottom Quarks, Tau and Tau-Neutrino
a. No members of 2 and 3 are stable, with the
possible exception of the neutrino
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Gauge Bosons (Carries of force)
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1. Types
A. Photon
1. Electromagnetic Force
2. Couples electric charge
B. Graviton
1. Gravitational Force
2. Carries Gravitational Force
C. Gluons
1. Carry Strong Force
2. Couples Quarks
3. 8 Types of Gluons
4. Exchange of gluons bind together quarks
D. Intermediate Vector Bosons
1. Carry Weak Nuclear Force
a. Weak Nuclear Force responsible for certain
nuclear decays
2. Examples
a. W^+
b. W^-
c. Z^o
1. electrically neutral
2. Can decay into pairs of
neutrinos and anti-neutrinos
2. Gauge Boson characteristics
1. Spin = 1
2. Angular Momentum = 1 h
Quantum Chromodynamics
Explains the strong force by which quarks interact on the basis of
their "color". "Color" is an invisible trait that characterizes the
force similar to "charge" in electricdynamics. Electrodynamic
charge has one state; either positive or negative. Quarks have 3 colors.
Quarks: red, green, blue. Antiquarks: antired, antigreen, and antiblue.
Electroweak Theory
Unites electromagnetism and weak interactions. Predicted the neutral
weak interaction and the heavy intermediate bosons, W^+, W^-, Z^o
Advantages:
Requires fermions come in pairs.
ie - electron, electron-neutrino
Each particle must have an antiparticle
ie - electron, positron
ie - electron-neutrino, electron-antineutrino
Disadvantages:
Doesn't specify how many pairs make a family.
Doesn't specify about the number of families of matter
Higgs Particle
Particle which in theory should be able to explain the origin of
particle mass.
Kaons
Hyperons
both are antistrange elementary particles
Laws of Conservation
Charge
Translational momentum
Angular Momentum (Spin)
Energy
Strangeness
Parity
Creating Z Particles
Produced by electron-positron pair whose combined kinetic energy
make up the difference between their rest masses (expressed in
equivalent energy) and the rest mass of Z.
Z can decay into "channels". Each decay channel shortens the life
of Z.
Known channels
Decays to particle and antiparticle pairs of all fermions with less than
1/2 the Z mass
3 varities of charged leptons
5 kinds of quarks
3 varities of neutrinos
Electroweak theory predicts the contributions to channels to an
accuracy of 1%
for each:
combined quark channels 1.74 eV
charged lepton channel 83.5 million eV
neutrino channel 166 million ev
Electron-Positron Annihilations
1. 88% produce quark and anti-quark
2. 12% divided equally among the production of:
tau lepton and antitau lepton
muon and antimuon
and electron-positron (reverses the initial annihilation)
Unanswered Questions:
1. Why are there just 3 families of particles
2. What law determines the masses of their members, decreeing that they
span 10 powers of 10