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General Information Lookup:
The Particle Adventure title
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Glossary
The particle pronunciation guide
Units
The Standard Model Path:
The Thinker: The Start of the
Standard Model Path
The Search for the Fundamental
Four Elements
Answer to Four Elements Question
Introduction to the Atom
Is the Atom Fundamental?
Is the Nucleus Fundamental?
Are Protons and Neutrons Fundamental?
Distorted Atom Diagram
Atom Model (animated)
Quarks and the Scale of
Things
The Fundamental Particles
Alphabets and Particle Names
The Standard Model
A Summary of the Standard
Model
Standard Model Quiz
Antimatter
Leptons
The Lepton Chart
Lepton Decays
Possible Lepton Decay Quiz
Neutrinos
Lonely Leptons
Quarks
The Quark Chart
Quark Interactions
Funny history and naming of quarks
The Cork Model
The Top Quark
A Top Quark Event
Hadrons
Baryons
Baryon Chart
Quiz: Fractional Charge
Mesons
Meson Chart
Hadron Masses
Quark Quiz
The Generations of Matter
Why are there Generations of Matter?
Standard Model Matter
Particles
What holds the world
together?
The Four Interactions
Interactions Chart
Force Carriers
Chart
How does matter interact?
Physics Cartoon
The Unseen Effect
Mass Attraction
Question
Gravity
Electromagnetism
Photons
Electromagnetism: The Big
Question
The Last Two Interactions
Nucleus Binding
Strong
Color Charge and Containment
Residual Strong
Weak
Interactions Quiz
Electroweak
Flavor
Interactions Summary
Quiz on Force Carriers
Classification of Particles
Fermions
Fermions and Bosons
Chart
Fermions and Bosons Quiz
Bosons
Name Warning
Standard Model Chart
Summary of Standard
Model
The Experimental Evidence Path:
Testing a Theory: The Start of the
Experimental Evidence Path
Searching for the Atom's
Structure
Rutherford's Result
Rutherford's
Analysis
How Physicists Experiment
Try it too: Deflected Probe
Answers to Target
Game
Detecting the World
A Better Microscope
Wavelength and Resolution: The Cave
Wavelength and Resolution: The Moral
Wavelength and Resolution Explained
The Physicist's Tool: Accelerators
Waves and particles
The World's Meterstick
Mass and Energy
Energy-Mass Conversion
Accelerators
How to Obtain Particles to Accelerate
Accelerating Particles
Accelerating Particles: Animation
Accelerator Design
Fixed-Target Experiments
Colliding-Beam
Experiments
The Physics of Colliding Beam Experiments
A Linear of Circular Accelerator?
What makes particles go in a circle?
Advantages of Accelerator Design
The Major Accelerators
SLAC
B Factory
BaBar
Fermilab
Superconducting Magnets
CERN
LHC and LEP
Brookhaven
CESR
DESY
KEK
IHEP
The Event
Detectors
Detector Shapes
Modern Detectors
Typical Detector
Components
Conservation Law Quiz
Measuring Charge and
Momentum
Detector Cross Section
What particle tracks are shown?
The Computer Reconstruction of an
Event
Quark/Gluon Event
The End of the Experimental
Evidence Path
Beyond the Standard Model Path:
Beyond the Standard Model
Standard Modeling and Theories
What about masses?
Supersymmetry
Unified Theories
More about Unified Theories
Grand Unified Theory
Unified Theory of All Interactions
Dark Matter: A Revolution
An Explanation of Decays:
Radioactivity
Radioactive Particles
Unhappy Physicists: Questions about decay
Residual Strong holds nuclei together
Quantum Mechanics
Half Life
Missing Mass
Particle Decay Mediators: Force Carriers
Virtual Particles
Different Interactions during Decays
Annihilations
Decay Examples
Neutron Beta Decay
Electron/Positron Annihilation
Animation of Electron/Positron
Annihilation
Top production (proton/antiproton)
Animation of Top Production
Charm/Anti-Charm Annihilation
Bubble Chamber Photograph
The History Path:
Main Physics Timeline
Ancients: 500 B.C - 1500 A.D.
Scientific Revolution:
1500 A.D. - 1900 A.D.
Quantum Theory: 1900 - 1964
Standard Model: 1964 -
History Index
Educational Information:
Particle Physics Activities
Activity One (Student)
Activity Two (Student)
Activity Three (Student)
Activity Four (Student)
Activity Five (Student)
Activity Six (Student)
Activity Seven (Student)
Teacher Pages (gatekeeper)
Search / Supplementary Information:
Summary of The Particle Adventure
The Complete Menu
Search Tools
Index:
General Index
Picture Index
Quizes and Education Index
Outlines and Project Organization
Standard Model Outline
Experimental Evidence
Outline
Beyond Standard Model
Outline
Decay Path Outline
History Path Outline
Project Credits