FUNDAMENTAL

PARTICLE PHYSICS PARTICLE

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Candidates should be able to :

understand that a quark is a fundamental particle and that

there are six flavours (types) of quark: up, down, strange,
charm, top and bottom) understand that a hadron may be either a baryon (consisting
of three quarks) or a meson (consisting of one quark and one
recall and use the charge of each flavour of quark and antiquark)
understand that its respective antiquark has the opposite
charge (no knowledge of any other properties of
quarks is required) describe the changes to quark composition that take place
during β− and β+ decay
recall that protons and neutrons are not fundamental
particles and describe protons and neutrons in terms of
their quark composition recall that electrons and neutrinos are fundamental particles
called leptons

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EVERYTIHING IN THE UNIVERSE MADE OF …

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HADRON AND LEPTON

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 QUARK

 Quarks are always found bundled together and have charge and the charge is conserved.
 The other quarks the charm strange top and bottom quarks have larger mass and unstable.
 You can still find these heavier quarks in high energy cosmic environments things like supernova or neutron stars and
we also create them in our particle accelerators.
 Quarks carry electric charge

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CONFIGURATION OF QUARK CHARGE

Pion

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 CONSERVATION IN REACTION

The total number of nucleons generally remains constant.

the total electrical charge remains constant

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 EXERCISE

5.

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EXERCISE

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Thank You!