Matter neutral particles are particles characterized by both zero baryon number and zero lepton number. This third class of particles includes mesons formed by a quark and an antiquark pair (a pair of matter particle and antimatter particle) and bosons which are messengers of known interactions (...
whereas photons did not interact at all, making them the fastest particles in the universe and also massless. Photons were like tiny marbles that never touched the Higgs field and hence never gained mass from it. On the other hand, W and Z bosons were heavier marbles...
A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a unique state of matter. Imagine a group of particles moving together in the same direction and at the same speed, behaving like one. This is what happens in a BEC. These particles, known as bosons, get so cold that they start acting like a single...
When an antiparticle and a particle are within their ideals quantum states, they can annihilate each other and form other particles. The existence of antiparticles is described within the quantum field theory. Carl Anderson played a significant role is the discovery of antiparticle while he was ...
Okay I clearly don’t know a lot of physics and even less quantum physics, but is it really fair to say that virtual particles are not particles and the Feynman diagram is not a “picture” of the physical phenomena because for any physical phenomena to be understood we have to, in...
How do particle accelerators create Higgs bosons? What is singularity in quantum physics? What subatomic particle did Rutherford discover? What does a subatomic particle look like? What subatomic particles are present in an alpha particle? When was the Higgs boson discovered?
Composite particles such as the proton or neutron. Bosons These are particles that carry forces. Leptons A lepton is extremely small and has no known structure or size. The electron and neutrino are examples of leptons, which are further classified into: tau-tau neutrino, muon-muon neutrino, ...
The bosons are the particles that communicate the forces of the Universe. The one you’re probably familiar with is the photon, which communicates the electromagnetic force. Then there’s the gluon, which communicates the strong nuclear force and the W and Z bosons which communicate the weak nu...
How can quarks, which are fermions, combine to form bosons? Why must an even number combine to form a boson? How is a particle placed in a cyclotron? What are the particles that make up an atom? What are their charges? How are they arranged? What is the a...
The theory proposes that a so-called Higgs energy field exists everywhere in the universe. As particles zoom around in this field, they interact with and attract Higgs bosons, which cluster around the particles in varying numbers. Imagine the universe like a party. Relatively unknown guests at ...