Particle Physics

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Baryon
Made from 3 quarks
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Meson
Made from quark-antiquark pairs
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What is a hadron?
Wider particle group containing both hadrons and mesons, and they interact through the strong nuclear force
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Lepton
Fundamental particles
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Names of the 6 Quarks
Up, Charm, Top, Down, Strange, Bottom
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Charge of Up Quark
+2e/3
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Charge of Down Quark
-e/3
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Charge of Strange Quark
-e/3
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Charge of Top Quark
+2e/3
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Charge of Charm Quark
+2e/3
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Charge of Bottom Quark
-e/3
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Two Examples of Baryons
Protons (uud) , Neutron (udd)
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Four Examples of Mesons
Kaons (always 1 strange); Pions - π+ (up + anti-down), π- (down + anti-up) , π^0 (up + anti-up/ down + anti-down)
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Examples of Leptons
Electron, Muon, Tau and corresponding Neutrinos
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Charge of the electron, muon, and tau particle?
-e
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Charge of the neutrinos?
0
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Card 2

Front

Made from quark-antiquark pairs

Back

Meson

Card 3

Front

Wider particle group containing both hadrons and mesons, and they interact through the strong nuclear force

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Fundamental particles

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

Up, Charm, Top, Down, Strange, Bottom

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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