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conservation in a nuclear reaction

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  1. mass-energy
  2. momentum
  3. electric charge
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Disintegration energy (Q)

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energy released when a radioactive disintegration takes place

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wolfgang pauli

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proposed existence of 3rd particle emitted during beta decay, the neutrino in 1931 to account for loss of energy/momentum during beta decay i.e. conservation of energy/momentum did not work for b-decay

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enrico fermi

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named neutrino

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cowan and reines

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first to detect neutrino. only interacts very weakly with matter which is why it went undetected for so long

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john cockroft and ernest walton

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produced a nuclear disintegration by bombarding lithium with artificially accelerated protons
-1st artificial splitting of a nucleus
-1st transmutation using artificially accelerated particles
-first experimental verification of E = mc^
-won nobel prize

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rutherford

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first artificial transmutation
-bombarded nitrogen with a-particles

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paul dirac

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predicted the existence of antiparticles (antimatter) and positrons mathematically

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segre and chamberlin

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discovered antiproton

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carl david anderson

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discovered positron (first known antiparticle) by observing it in a cloud chamber

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positron

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antiparticle of the electron (same mass, opposite charge)
-produced tracks in a cloud chamber similar to an electron but was deflected in the opposite direction in a magnetic field

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pair production

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the creating of 2 particles from energy.

-in pair production a particle and its antiparticle are created and momentum and charge are conserved
-occurs when high energy gamma ray photon loses its energy (hf) when it collides with a nucleus

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pair production equation

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hf = 2mc^2 + Ek1 + Ek2

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pair annihilation

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when 2 antiparticles are almost at rest and near each other they join together and disappear producing energy
-momentum before is almost 0 so momentum after must be 0. as a result 2 photons are produced in opposite directions

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pair annihilation formula

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e+ + e- = 2hf

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ernest o’lawrence

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developed first circular particle accelerator (cyclotron)
-elec. fields used for constant acceleration of particles
-magnetic fields used to control position of particles

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fundamental forces of nature

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  1. strong nuclear
  2. electromagnetic
  3. weak nuclear
  4. gravitational

*check sheet for more info

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particle zoo

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until the 1960s the different varieties of particles being produced by high energy collisions were called the particle zoo as there was no apparent way of categorising them

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families of particles

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  1. hadrons –> baryons (3 quarks) or mesons (1 quark 1 antiquark)
  2. leptons (elementary particles)
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elementary particles

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have no other particles inside i.e. cannot be broken into smaller particles

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leptons

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elementary particles
-dont feel strong force
-feel weak force
-affected by gravitational and electromagnetic force (if charged)

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lepton family (check sheet for more info)

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  1. electron, electron neutrino (and antiparticles for both)
  2. muon and muon neutrino
  3. tau and tau neutrino
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hadrons

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particles made up of quarks. split into two groups, baryons (3quarks) and mesons (1quark 1antiquark).
-feel strong and weak nuclear force
-affected by grav. and elec. force (if charged)
-

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baryons

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made of any 3 quarks and mass > or = mass of proton. antibaryons made of 3 antiquarks

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mesons

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made of any 1 quark and 1 antiquark and have mass between that of protons and electrons

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hadron family (baryons)
*more info on sheet

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  1. proton (uud) - and antiparticle
  2. neutron (udd)
  3. lambda (uds)
  4. sigma (uus)
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hadron family (mesons)

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  1. pion (ud_) d bar = anti down –> &antiparticle
  2. kaon (us_)
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quarks
*see sheet for types + charges

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elementary particles that have a charge of +-1/3 or +-2/3

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proton quarks

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uud

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neutron quarks

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udd

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lambda quarks

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uds

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sigma quarks

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uus

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pion quarks

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ud_

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kaon quarks

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us_

35
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linear particle accelerator benefits

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They are easier to build.
* They do not require large magnets.
* less expensive. circular need huge radii to bring particles to high energy states. higher cost of constructing circular accelerator.
* Charged particles radiate away energy when accelerated. At high energy state, radiation loss is less for linear accelerator compared to circular accelerator.

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gell-mann and zweig

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independently proposed the existence of quarks. gell-man took the name quark from james joyce’s ‘finnegan’s wake’

-discovered by bombarding protons with high speed electrons. they were deflected through different angles meaning protons consisted of some sort of particles

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circular particle accelerator benefits

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-can accelerate particles to very high energies without needing a very long tunnel - cost
-easier to force particle collisions

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why are neutrinos hard to detect

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  1. very small mass
  2. no charge
  3. interact weakly with matter

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