“Elementary” Particles: The Ultimate Building Blocks of Matter

12/3/03


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Table of Contents

“Elementary” Particles: The Ultimate Building Blocks of Matter

Announcements

More Information

Overview

Our Current Theory of Matter

The Fundamental Forces

Constituents of the Atom

1930’s

Nuclear Energy

The Chain Reaction and the Release of Nuclear Energy

Anything Else?

And still more!

Quarks: Charge +/- 1/3, 2/3 e

Scale of Sizes

More Quarks?

The CDF Experiment

The Top Quark Discovery

Our Current Theory: The Standard Model

Search for the Ultimate Theory

Comments & Questions

Summary

Author: R. M. Martin

Email: rmartin@uiuc.edu

Home Page: http://online.physics.uiuc.edu/courses/phys150/fall03/index.html