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Glossary
Welcome to the Particle Adventure
Suggested Paths and Instructions
Main Chart
Units
The Standard Model Path:
The Thinker: Matter Of What is the World Made? Empedocles Introduction to the Atom Structure within the Atom Model of the Atom Scale of the Atom Introduction to the Fundamental Particles A Time Line The Greek Alphabet The Standard Model Are Quarks and Leptons Fundamental? Antimatter Bubble Chamber Photograph Quiz on Particles Leptons Neutrinos Leptons Continued Lepton Chart Lepton Decays Lepton Decay Quiz The Quark Model Cork Model Quark Chart Quark Masses The Top Quark Top Quark Production (Picture) Quark Interactions Strong Flavor Quiz History of Quarks The Names of Quarks Hadrons Baryons Quiz on Fractional Charge Baryon Chart Mesons Meson Chart Pronunciation of Particle Names Hadron Masses Summary Chart of Particles The Thinker: Forces Four Forces Interactions Properties of Interactions Chart Which Interaction Quiz Force Carriers Force Carriers Chart What Holds You to the Earth? Gravity Photons Electromagnetism Continued The Last Two Forces What Binds the Nucleus? What Else Could Bind The Nucleus? Strong Interaction Color Charge Confinement The Production of Charm Particles (Picture) The Decay of an eta-c Particle (Picture) Residual Strong Interaction Weak Interaction Flavor The Generations of Particles Radioactivity Neutron beta Decay (Picture) Marie Curie Electroweak Interaction Quiz on the Interactions Summary of Interactions Quiz on Force Carriers Fermions and Bosons Fermion and Boson Chart Fermion and Boson Quiz Bose Fermi Too Many Particle Names Standard Model Summary The Beauty of the Standard Model
Beyond the Standard Model Path:
Unanswered Questions How do particles get their masses? Unified Electromagnetic Unified Electroweak Unified GUT Unified All Supersymmetry Dark Matter
The Experimental Path:
Experimental Evidence The World's Meter Stick A Better Microscope Energy and Mass Accelerators Fixed-Target Experiments Hans Geiger Colliding Beams An Example of Colliding Beams How to Get the Particles Virtual Particles The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Charged Particles Acceleration Linear or Circular Accelerator? Accelerator Design How do particles go in circles? SLAC The B Factory More on the B Factory CERN The LHC/LEP Tunnel DESY Superconducting Magnets Fermilab Brookhaven CESR Detectors Shapes of Detectors The Components of a Modern Detector Measurement of Charge and Momentum The Paths Particles Take through a Detector The Paths Particles Take through a Cylindrical Detector Conservation Law Quiz Computer Reconstructions of Collisions Actual Top Quark Event Quark Events What Particles? What Particles Continued What Particles: the Last Two The End of Experimental Evidence