Classification of Particles Flashcards
1
Q
What are all particles classified as
A
fermions or bosons
2
Q
What are the 4 bosons
A
exchange force carriers
photons
gluons
w- w+ z
higgs
3
Q
What are the two fermion types
A
Hadrons
Leptons
4
Q
What are the sub categories of hadrons
A
Baryons
Mesons
5
Q
What are the 3 leptons
A
electrons
muons
neutrinos
6
Q
What are the baryons
A
protons and neutrons
7
Q
What force is always involved with protons and neutrons
A
strong nuclear
8
Q
What are the mesons
A
pions
kaons
9
Q
What does a muon feynman decay look like
A
muon enters
becomes muon neutrino
w- boson produced
anti electron neutrino and electron produced
10
Q
What are the 4 quantum numbers
A
Baryon number
Lepton number
Strangeness
Charge
11
Q
What is strangess of strange quark and anti strange quak
A
strange quark = -1 strangeness
anti strange quark = 1 strangeness
