Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of fundamental particles and forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies...
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Particle. Antiparticle Brownian motion Corpuscularianism Fluid parcel Matter Mechanics Particle counter Particle detector Particle physics Particle physics...
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Higgs boson (redirect from God particle (physics))
Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of...
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Standard Model (redirect from Particle physics standard model)
The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions...
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particle physics, a calorimeter is a type of detector that measures the energy of particles. Particles enter the calorimeter and initiate a particle shower...
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In particle physics, an event refers to the results just after a fundamental interaction takes place between subatomic particles, occurring in a very...
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In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle. The Standard Model counts six flavours of quarks and six flavours...
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In physics, a subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. According to the Standard Model of particle physics, a subatomic particle can be...
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In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. The Standard Model...
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In particle physics, a generation or family is a division of the elementary particles. Between generations, particles differ by their flavour quantum number...
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Wave–particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that fundamental entities of the universe, like photons and electrons, exhibit particle or wave...
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W and Z bosons (redirect from W particle)
In particle physics, the W and Z bosons are vector bosons that are together known as the weak bosons or more generally as the intermediate vector bosons...
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In particle physics, the parton model is a model of hadrons, such as protons and neutrons, proposed by Richard Feynman. It is useful for interpreting the...
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Hadron (redirect from Hadron (subatomic particle))
In particle physics, a hadron is a composite subatomic particle made of two or more quarks held together by the strong nuclear force. Pronounced /ˈhædrɒn/...
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In particle physics, a resonance is the peak located around a certain energy found in differential cross sections of scattering experiments. These peaks...
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list of particle accelerators used for particle physics experiments. Some early particle accelerators that more properly did nuclear physics, but existed...
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commonly applied to the field of particle physics, where it forms a bridge between the mathematical models of theoretical physics (such as quantum field theories...
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hypothesized microscopic particles in particle physics, condensed matter physics and cosmology. Elementary particles are particles with no measurable internal...
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Neutrino (redirect from Ν particle)
with Fermi at the Institute of Physics of via Panisperna in Rome, in order to distinguish this light neutral particle from Chadwick's heavy neutron. In...
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between particle physics and representation theory, as first noted in the 1930s by Eugene Wigner. It links the properties of elementary particles to the...
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point particle, ideal particle or point-like particle (often spelled pointlike particle) is an idealization of particles heavily used in physics. Its defining...
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In physics, the cross section is a measure of the probability that a specific process will take place in a collision of two particles. For example, the...
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Review of Particle Physics (formerly Review of Particle Properties, Data on Particles and Resonant States, and Data on Elementary Particles and Resonant...
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Annihilation (redirect from Annihilation (particle physics))
In particle physics, annihilation is the process that occurs when a subatomic particle collides with its respective antiparticle to produce other particles...
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unification and the W and Z bosons" (PDF). High Energy Physics. Particle Physics / Part III: Particles. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University. Retrieved 2022-10-15...
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interesting test of quantum electrodynamics. Flavour (particle physics) Generation (particle physics) Koide formula Lepton Since the tauonic lepton number...
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Matter (redirect from Matter (physics))
However, in both physics and chemistry, matter exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties (the so-called wave–particle duality). A chemical...
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Particle physics is the study of the interactions of elementary particles at high energies, whilst physical cosmology studies the universe as a single...
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those of ordinary particles, the longer the virtual particle exists. They are important in the physics of many processes, including particle scattering and...
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particles (electrons and positrons) for particle physics. The design of a linac depends on the type of particle that is being accelerated: electrons, protons...
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