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- In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle that does not have a substructure, as far as is known; that ...18 KB (2,400 words) - 16:06, 13 February 2024
- The basic principle behind the particle accelerator is simple: Collide things together at high energy and detect what comes out. In 1909, Ernest ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 08:56, 18 November 2022
- A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. It may be either an elementary (or fundamental) particle, or a composite particle, also ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
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- In particle physics, a lepton is one of the elementary (or fundamental) particles that are the building blocks of matter. Elementary particles ...8 KB (1,168 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- In particle physics, bosons are particles that obey Bose-Einstein statistics and are named after Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein. In ...10 KB (1,425 words) - 17:22, 22 December 2022
- In particle physics, a hadron (from the Greek word ἁδρός , hadros, meaning "thick") is a subatomic particle formed by the binding ...10 KB (1,480 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
- The term baryon usually refers to a subatomic particle composed of three quarks. The Particle Adventure, [http://www.particleadventure.org/frameless/hadrons ...12 KB (1,691 words) - 11:02, 20 September 2023
- In particle physics, fermions are a group of elementary (or fundamental) particles that are the building blocks of matter. In the Standard Model ...16 KB (2,185 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2024
- The electron is a fundamental subatomic particle, which carries a negative electric charge. Electrons generate an electric field. In organized ...10 KB (1,515 words) - 15:57, 13 February 2024
- The angular momentum of an object or particle that is moving around ... :\mathbf{L} is the angular momentum of the object or particle, ...13 KB (2,046 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. ...16 KB (2,386 words) - 08:56, 18 November 2022
- proton = first) is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of ... The proton is the simplest composite particle. It contains three fermions ...10 KB (1,600 words) - 08:20, 2 December 2022
- In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle that does not have a substructure, as far as is known; that ...18 KB (2,400 words) - 16:06, 13 February 2024
- A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. Cyclotrons accelerate charged particles using a high-frequency, alternating voltage (potential ...12 KB (1,883 words) - 06:53, 12 January 2024
- Alpha decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle. An alpha particle (or α particle, named after ...13 KB (1,992 words) - 08:22, 23 July 2023
- In the Standard Model of particle physics, a meson is a composite subatomic particle comprising one quark and one antiquark. Mesons are part ...20 KB (3,017 words) - 16:16, 9 November 2022
- A stationary charged particle in an electric field experiences a force ... If the charged particle can be considered a point charge, the electric ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 00:14, 13 February 2024
- * Elementary particle * Positron * Proton == Notes == == References == ... Category:Particle physics 229221395 ...8 KB (1,066 words) - 01:57, 9 January 2023
- The basic principle behind the particle accelerator is simple: Collide things together at high energy and detect what comes out. In 1909, Ernest ...19 KB (2,915 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- also contained an extremely light neutral particle which he called the neutron ... * Particle physics * Positron * Proton * Radioactive decay ...10 KB (1,458 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- The Standard Model of particle physics is a theory that describes three of the four known fundamental interactions between the elementary particles ...25 KB (3,578 words) - 16:25, 8 February 2023
- A subatomic particle is a particle smaller than an atom. It may be either an elementary (or fundamental) particle, or a composite particle, also ...20 KB (3,162 words) - 21:09, 26 February 2023
- the same action regardless of how the test particle is oriented. The opposite of isotropy is anisotropy, a term used when properties are different ...5 KB (748 words) - 21:30, 7 February 2023
