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Question: |
What is Fundamental?
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- In order for a particle to be considered
fundamental,
what must be true about it?
- Are quarks considered to be fundamental?
- What is the maximum size (in meters) of
electrons and quarks?
- According to the Standard Model, what
accounts for all of the
subatomic particles and the interactions between them?
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| What is the World Made of? |
- In what way is a particle different from
its antiparticle?
- What is the unusual characteristic of
quarks?
- How are the generations of matter
organized?
- Which generation(s) of matter is the
visible matter
in the universe made of?
- Why aren’t other particles included in
visible matter?
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| What Holds it Together? |
- What’s the difference between a force and
an interaction?
- What is a force at the fundamental level?
- What does the residual E-M force allow
atoms to do?
- What two types of charge do quarks
have?
- What does the residual strong force do
that’s so important?
- What are weak interactions responsible
for?
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| Particle Decays and
Annihilations |
- What does particle decay refer to when we
are talking
about fundamental particles?
- Give examples of decays caused by the
strong, electromagnetic,
and weak interactions!
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| Unsolved Mysteries |
- At approximately what particle energies do
some GUTs predict
that the strong, electromagnetic and weak forces merge?
- What is supersymmetry?
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| How do we know any of this? |
- How do we improve the resolution of our
probes?
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| How Do We Experiment With Tiny
Particles? |
- What is used to accelerate particles in an
accelerator?
- What is the advantage the colliding-beam
arrangement?
- What types of particles are detected in
the tracking chamber?
- What does the hadron calorimeter measure?
- Why are muons and neutrinos the only
particles detected in the
muon chambers?
- How is the presence of neutrinos inferred
from muon chamber data?
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| How Do We Interpret Our Data? |
- Why aren’t neutrons and photons detected
in the tracking chamber?
- How do researchers know that a particle
detected in the muon chamber
is actually a muon and not some other particle?
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