Subatomic Particles

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  • Created on: 08-02-22 10:13
What two particle classes compose matter?
Fermions and Bosons
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What is the Pauli Exclusion Principal?
2+ particles cannot be in the same place and state at the same time
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Which class of particles obey this principal?
Fermions
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What spin do Fermions have?
1/2 spin
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What 2 types of particles are fermions?
quarks and leptons
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Which of quarks and leptons are composite (cannot exist on their own)?
quarks
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What are the 2 types of quark (1st gen only)?
Up (u) and Down (d)
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What are the 2 types of antiquark (1st gen only)?
Antiup and antidown (u and d with line over the top)
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What charges do the 1st gen quarks have?
Up: +2/3 Down: -1/3
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What charges do the 1st gen antiquarks have?
Antiup: -2/3 Antidown: +1/3
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What are the two lepton types (1st gen only)?
Electron and electron neutrino (e- and Ve)
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What are the two antilepton types (1st gen only)?
Positron and anti-electron neutrino (e+ and Ve with line)
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What particle class is created from quark combinations?
Hadrons
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What two particle classes compose hadrons?
Mesons and Baryons
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What class are the first-gen mesons?
Pions
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What is the quark makeup of each type of pion?
Up+antiup, down+antidown: π0. Up+antidown: π+. Down+antiup:π-
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What are the 2 types of baryons that contain at least 1 of each 1st gen quark type?
Proton and Neutron
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What is the quark makeup of a proton and neutron?
Proton: uud. Neutron: udd
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What are the bosons?
Force carriers
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What is each type of force, and the corresponding boson?
EM - photon. Gravitational - graviton. Strong - gluon. Weak - weak, w+, w-
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What three particle characteristics must be conserved?
Charge, lepton number, baryon number.
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