11.1 Introduction to Particle Physics
Four fundamental forces and the bosons that carry them, quark and lepton families, fermion-boson statistics, and antiparticles and annihilation.
University Physics Volume 3, 11.1 Introduction to Particle Physics
4 exercises
11.1 Exercise 1
What are the four fundamental forces? Briefly describe them.
11.1 Exercise 3
List the quark and lepton families
11.1 Exercise 5
How much energy is released when an electron and a positron at rest annihilate each other? (For particle masses, see the table.)
11.1 Exercise 7
When both an electron and a positron are at rest, they can annihilate each other according to the reaction
In this case, what are the energy, momentum, and frequency of each photon?
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