Particle Physics
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- Created on: 30-10-13 22:29
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- PARTICLE PHYSICS
- Hadrons
- Baryons
- Made up of 3 quarks
- Only stable baryon is a proton
- All others decay into protons
- Have a baryon number of +1
- Proton, neutron
- Mesons
- Made up of 2 quarks
- Quark and an antiquark
- All unstable
- Made up of 2 quarks
- Non-fundamental particles made up of QUARKS
- Quarks are fundamental particles - 'building blocks'
- Classified by strangeness number.
- Baryons
- Leptons
- Fundamental particles
- Have a lepton number of +1
- Electron, tau, muon
- Hadrons
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