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1
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What particles make up subatomic particles?

A

Leptons (subject to the weak force) and hadrons (subject to the strong and weak force)

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What particles make up hadrons?

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Mesons and Baryons

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What particles make up mesons and baryons?

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Quarks (up quarks, down quarks, strange quarks).

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What does a meson consist of?

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A quark-antiquark pair

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What does a baryon consist of?

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3 quarks or 3 antiquarks

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What is 1 eV the equivalent of?

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1 eV= 1.6*10-19J (charge of an electron)

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What 3 quarks do you need to know?

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Up quarks, down quarks and strange quarks

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What 3 Leptons do you need to know?

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Electrons, Muons, Electron Neutrinos

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What 2 bosons (forces) do you need to know?

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Photons, weak forces (W)

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10
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True or False, Do Leptons live in the nucleus?

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False, they don’t live in the nucleus

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What are examples of leptons?

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Electrons, muons, tauons

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True or False, Do Hadrons live in the nucleus?

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True, They live in the nucleus

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What quarks make up a proton (a baryon)?

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2 up quarks and 1 down quark (UUD)

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What quarks make up a neutron (a baryon)?

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1 up quarks and 2 down quarks (UDD)

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What is the baryon number of a proton and neutron?

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1

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What are the most important types of mesons?

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Kaons and Pions

17
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True or False, Do kaons always have a strange particle in them?

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True, Kaons always have a strange particle in them

18
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What does an antibaryon consist of?

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3 antiquarks

19
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What combination of quarks make up an antiproton

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2 anti-up quarks, and 1 anti-down quarks

20
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True or False, The Sigma (Σ) particle is a baryon containing a strange quark

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True, The sigma (Σ) particle contains a strange quark

21
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If a particle is a lepton what is its lepton and baryon number?

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Lepton number = 1, Baryon number = 0

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If a particle is an anti-lepton what is its lepton and baryon number?

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Lepton number = -1, Baryon number = 0

23
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What is the strangeness number for a strange quark?

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The strangeness number is -1

24
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What is the baryon number for a quark?

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The baryon number for a quark is +1/3

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If a particle is a baryon what is its lepton and baryon number?

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Lepton number = 0, Baryon number = 1

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If a particle is an anti-baryon what is its lepton and baryon number?

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Lepton number = 0, Baryon number = -1

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If a particle is a meson what is its lepton and baryon number?

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Lepton number= 0, Baryon number = 0

28
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What things need to be conserved for a particle to decay?

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The lepton number, charge, baryon number, strangeness number

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