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Sep 12, 2022 · Identify and describe fermions and bosons. Identify and describe the quark and lepton families. Distinguish between particles and antiparticles, and describe their interactions. Elementary particle physics is the study of fundamental particles and their interactions in nature.
This chapter covers the basics of particle physics as we know it today. An amazing convergence of topics is evolving in particle physics. We find that some particles are intimately related to forces, and that nature on the smallest scale may have its greatest influence on the large-scale character of the universe.
Our best understanding of how these particles and three of the forces are related to each other is encapsulated in the Standard Model of particle physics. Developed in the early 1970s, it has successfully explained almost all experimental results and precisely predicted a wide variety of phenomena.
The theory describes two fundamental types of particles: fermions, which makes up all of the ‘stuff’ around us, and bosons, which mediate how fermions interact with one another. Two familiar examples are the electron (a fermion) and a photon (a boson), the particle of light which carries the electromagnetic force.
The Standard Model of Particle Physics is scientists’ current best theory to describe the most basic building blocks of the universe. It explains how particles called quarks (which make up protons and neutrons) and leptons (which include electrons) make up all known matter.
Course Description. This is an introductory graduate-level course on the phenomenology and experimental foundations of nuclear and particle physics, including the fundamental forces and particles, as well as composites. Emphasis is on the experimental establishment of the leading models, and the theoretical tools and experimental … Show more.
This course introduces you to subatomic physics, i.e. the physics of nuclei and particles. More specifically, the following questions are addressed: - What are the concepts of particle physics and how are they implemented? - What are the properties of atomic nuclei and how can one use them?
