the standard model what’s fundamental what’s in a name

THE STANDARD MODELTHE STANDARD MODEL

What’s fundamentalWhat’s fundamentalWhat’s in a nameWhat’s in a name

Organizational Organizational table(s)table(s)•Periodic tablePeriodic table

–Organizes atoms by propertiesOrganizes atoms by properties–Reading the tableReading the table

•Atoms and even nuclei are not Atoms and even nuclei are not fundamentalfundamental

•Scale of subatomic matter (see Scale of subatomic matter (see illustration next slide)illustration next slide)

Standard model chartStandard model chartOrganizes all of matter and Organizes all of matter and

energy (well most of it)energy (well most of it)Matter Vs. AntimatterMatter Vs. Antimatter

ChargeChargeAnnihilationAnnihilationPair productionPair production

Bosons Vs. FermionsBosons Vs. Fermions

• Spin

Fermion FlavorsFermion Flavors• Leptons and Quarks

Leptons•Solitary particles

•Charge on particles Vs. antiparticles

•Generations or Families

Leptons

•Lepton family conservation

•Neutrino’s and conservation laws

Quarks•Generations or families

•Charge•Combinations•Particles Vs. antiparticles

Combinations of quarks – Combinations of quarks – Hadrons Hadrons

BaryonsBaryonsExamples of Examples of

Baryon Baryon particlesparticles

Spin and Spin and consequencesconsequences

Combinations of quarks - Combinations of quarks - HadronsHadrons

MesonsMesonsExamples of Examples of

MesonsMesonsSpin and Spin and

consequences consequences (see illustration)(see illustration)

Bose-Einstein Bose-Einstein CondensateCondensate

Bosons Bosons (single particles)(single particles)

Spin (got it yet?)Spin (got it yet?)Mediate forces (Mediate forces (Fields Vs. exchange Fields Vs. exchange

particles)particles)ElectromagneticElectromagneticWeakWeakElectroweakElectroweakStrongStrongGravityGravity

Mediate decays

Mediate collisions and Mediate collisions and annihilationsannihilations

THE STANDARD MODEL

Fermions Bosons

Leptons Quarks

Baryons Mesons