Particle Physics For All

    Table of contents  MATTER AT  SUBATOMIC LEVEL -  QUICK SUMMARY View my previous article here - Hadrons View the next article here - Higgs Field with a Touch of Time Travel ----------------------------------------- In this article, I just wanted to give a quick recap along with some new content on matter at a subatomic level. (Not necessarily in this order) Quarks Leptons Bosons Hadrons Generations Families Quantum Numbers When we first study an atom, we look at three components - electrons, protons and neutrons. As we have seen earlier, electrons are fundamental particles, belonging to the family of leptons, while protons and neutrons are further made of fundamental particles known as quarks, which are bound by the strong force.  The composition of the universe is roughly as follows: 68% dark energy, 27% dark matter, and 5% normal matter. Quarks and Leptons can be assigned to families according to their properties, and to generations based on their mas...

    Table of contents  SUBATOMIC  PARTICLES - INTRODUCTION View my previous article here - Antimatter - Introduction View the next article here - Introduction to the Standard Model and its components ----------------------------------------- This is just an introduction to the subatomic particles. Let us take any object. Zoom in - we see atoms. Then, further zoom in, we see electrons and a nucleus. We zoom into the nucleus, and then we see protons and neutrons. This is usually where we stop looking.  But there is more. If we zoom into the protons and neutrons, we would find subatomic particles known as QUARKS . We have the QUARKS, LEPTONS AND BOSONS , which make up 16 of the 17 particles in the Standard Model.  Click here to view an article to know about quarks, leptons and bosons!   View the next article to know more about the Standard Model! ----------------------------------------- View the next article here - Introduction to the Standard Model and ...