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Modern elementary particle physics Gordon L. Kane
Publisher: Westview Press

Discovery of the Charm Quark, 59. Modern conception of the proton includes more than the three “valence” quarks — a down (d) and two up (u) quarks — which account for only about 2 percent of the proton's mass. This particle is known as the Higgs boson. 4 The Past 25 Years: Establishing the Standard Model 52. Forty years ago, their counterintuitive calculations plugged an important gap in the Standard Model of physics, which describes the 61 known elementary particles. He published some 53 articles and letters in peer-reviewed academic journalsand wrote and translated several physics textbooks, including Modern Quantum Mechanics, revised edition, by J. The World of Elementary-Particle Physics Circa 1972, 52. We know that the particle in question is a boson, one of the two fundamental classes of elementary particles and the type generally associated with carrying force. The historical definition of a subatomic particle was expanded over the past several decades to include elementary particles that are less complex than an atom and cannot be broken down further. This was a great insight that was close to the modern understanding in several ways.4 But two points where their concept was wrong was that the atom was “totally solid” and “indivisible.” Physicists have arrived elementary particles A diagram summarizing interactions between elementary particles described in the Standard Model. We have a well-tested theory of elementary particles and the forces that they exert on each other, known as the Standard Model. A central feature of the Standard Model is a symmetry between two of In 1967-8 the late Abdus Salam and I independently used this mathematics in formulating a specific theory, the modern unified theory of weak and electromagnetic forces that became part of the Standard Model. Discovery of the Tau Lepton, 59. Research, are scheduled to give a progress report on the search for the Higgs boson — infamously known as the “God particle” — whose discovery would vindicate the modern theory of how elementary particles get mass. Darkened circles represent types of particles, and blue lines connecting them represent interactions that can take place. The rest comes from a “sea” of virtual quarks and glueballs. We go from planets, which behave like actual objects with independent existence, to things like atoms and elementary particles, which are much more mathematical, less like anything “physical” we have experience with. This particle is a centerpiece of the modern Standard Model of elementary particle physics.