Chapter 7 - The World of Atoms
Elementary Particles

Murray Gell-Mann

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The Standard Model

  • Leptons and quarks  [Current Position]
  • Quark "charge" neutrality
  • Perl at Blahållen
  • Mesons and baryons from quarks

    • Facilities

  • Fermilab
  • The SSC and the LHC

    Detection instruments

  • Glaser and the bubble chamber
  • Design for first bubble chamber
  • Glaser and beer
  • Spark chamber
  • Post-triggered detection
  • Tracks
  • Optical detection

    Measurements

  • Mass spectrum
  • Simultaneous or two step
  • Three body decays
  • Two step decay
  • Phase space plots
  • Definition of Dalitz plot
  • Sample Dalitz plot
  • Coalpile from Berkeley
  • Poem
  • Lifetime measurements
  • Accepted value
  • Spin determination
  • Sigma 0
  • UM Union
  • Review of Particle Properties, 2004 (p. 5)

    • Quantum chromodynamics and the Standard Model

  • Leptons and quarks
  • The J-Psi particle
  • Ting interview
  • Ting at Konserthallen
  • Applet
  • The standard model



















    • Baryon mass formulae

  • Isospin and hypercharge
  • Baryon terms
  • Perturbation
  • Intermediate coupling
  • J=1/2 octet
  • Model
  • J=3/2 decuplet
  • Gell-Mann Okuba formula
  • Three spectroscopies

    • K meson regeneration

  • Production and decay processes
  • Quantum beats

    • Four-Fermion interactions

  • List of interactions

    • Relativistic Kinematics

  • 2-body problem
  • Beam-target kinematics
  • Relativistic kinematics
  • CM kinetic energies
  • CM momentum
  • CM transformation
  • Tranformation parameters
  • 3-body problem
  • Simultaneous vs sequential
  • Momentum product form
  • Individual momenta
  • Phase space