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Sim's Subatomics

Subatomic Particles

TermCompositionClassDef
Quarks None Fermion - Six flavors (Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, Charm) - Interacts with ALL four elementary forces - Discovered via inelastic scattering
Neutrinos electron, muon, tauon Fermion/Lepton - Identified in huge tanks of water - Released from stars - "Flavor oscillation" (Homestake experiment)
Photon None Gauge Boson - Massless quanta of light - Young's double-slit experiment - Carries the electromagnetic force (photoelectric effect)
Gluon None Gauge Boson - Carries the strong force - Bind together quarks
Higgs Boson None Scalar Boson - Carries gravity (gives mass to particles) - No mass - Discovered by ATLAS and CMS experiments
W and Z Bosons None Gauge Boson - Carries the weak force - Z has zero charge, W has +1 or -1
Muon None Fermion/Lepton - Time dilation - half-life of 2.2 seconds - 207 times bigger than an electron
Tauon None Fermion/Lepton - Can decay into hadrons - 3,500 times bigger than an electron
Electron None Fermion/Lepton - Pauli Exclusion Principle - VSPER Theory (modeling) - Antiparticle is positron
Pion quark, antiquark Meson/Boson/Hadron - Lightest meson - Discovered by Yakuwa - Found in cosmic rays
Kaon strange quark, antiquark Meson/Boson/Hadron - Strange quark - CP violation
J/Psi charm quark, antiquark Meson/,Boson/Hadron - Charm quark - Discovered by both SLAC and Brookhaven (two names)
Upsilon up quark, antiquark Meson/Boson/Hadron - up quark - Discovered by Leon Lederman
Proton 2 up quark, 1 down quark Baryon/Fermion/Hadron - Make up cosmic rays - Most common type of NMR - Discovered by Rutherford
Neutron 1 up quark, 2 down quark Baryon/Fermion/Hadron - Captured by Boron-10 - Produced by spallation - Discovered by James Chadwick
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