In this book, you will get acquainted with all of these particles and how they interact with each other. We will begin by introducing the fundamental forces by which elementary particles interact and represent …

Thought experiments can help students formulate views about particles such as, imagine a tiny person as small as a particle sticks a needle into a particle of water or gas. Would the water leak out? Would …

These notes were written for the course on Elementary Particle Physics for third-year students at Royal Holloway, University of London. The goal of the course is to become acquainted with the basic …

Particle physicists now believe they can describe the behavior of all known subatomic particles within a single theoretical framework called the Standard Model, incorporating quarks and leptons and their …

The printed PDG Book contains the Summary Tables and all review articles but no longer includes the detailed tables from the Particle Listings. This Particle Physics Booklet includes the Summary Tables …

We can evaluate the sines of the two angles from the above diagram in terms of the velocity of the light particle in air and in water. From the diagram on the previous slide we can immediately evaluate the …

What is Particle Physics? Particle physicists explore the most basic components of our natural world: Particles! Not just particles though, also their interactions, and how they become the things we see …