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THE PARTICLE PHYSICS (Choose Your Own) ADVENTURE


You will need to visit the following website: http://particleadventure.org/. From the homepage, there are 5 primary links that you can “GO!” to. Click on the 1st link about The Standard Model. As you scroll through all of its subsections using the arrows in the upper right, answer the questions below. You should also take the brief quizzes that periodically appear online. Seriously, take the quizzes.


  1. Is the atom fundamental? Support your answer.




  1. Is the nucleus fundamental? Support your answer.




  1. Are protons and neutrons fundamental? Support your answer.




  1. Are electrons fundamental? Support your answer.




  1. If we drew the atom to scale and made protons and neutrons a centimeter in diameter, then how big would the electrons and quarks be? How big would the entire atom's diameter be?




  1. What is The Standard Model? What are the 3 general types of particles that exist?





  1. What is an antiparticle (aka an antimatter particle)? How are they different from their particles? How are

they the same?





  1. When a matter particle and antimatter particle meet, what happens? (Yes, they shake hands, learn each other’s name, ask what high school they attended, but then what?!)





  1. How do we name antiparticles? How do we represent them with symbols? Provide examples if helpful.



  1. Quarks are one type of matter particle. Most of the matter we see around us is made from protons and neutrons, which are composed of quarks. There are 6 types, or flavors, of quarks. List them below, along with their corresponding fractional electric charges.








  1. Quarks only exist in groups with other quarks and are never found alone. Composite particles made of quarks are called what?



  1. There are 2 classes of hadrons. What are they called? How do they differ?





  1. What is the quark content of a proton? What about a neutron?





  1. The other general type of matter particles (besides quarks) is leptons. There are 6 types of leptons. List them below, and state which 3 have electrical charge.











  1. Of the 6 types of leptons, which very quickly naturally decay and which are stable?




  1. What are the 3 lepton families?




  1. During a lepton decay, lepton numbers must be conserved. Explain what is meant by that.




  1. Describe some characteristics or properties of neutrinos.


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