THE STANDARD MODEL

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THE STANDARD MODEL

• Whats fundamental
• Whats in a name

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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
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Standard model chart

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

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Bosons Vs. Fermions

• Spin

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Fermion Flavors

• Leptons and Quarks

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Leptons

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

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Leptons

• Lepton family conservation
• Neutrinos and conservation laws

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Quarks

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

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Combinations of quarks Hadrons

• Baryons
• Examples of Baryon particles
• Spin and consequences

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Combinations of quarks - Hadrons

• Mesons
• Examples of Mesons
• Spin and consequences (see illustration)

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Bose-Einstein Condensate
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Bosons (single particles)

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

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Mediate decays
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Mediate collisions and annihilations
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