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Particle physics

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Quarks, leptons, hadrons, antiparticles, conservation laws, reactions and particle detection.

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Particle physics

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  • Classify common particles using quark, lepton, baryon and meson models.
  • Apply charge, baryon-number and lepton-number conservation to particle reactions.
  • Interpret particle interactions, antiparticles and detector evidence using energy and momentum ideas.
  • Classify quarks, leptons, baryons and mesons.
  • Describe antiparticles.
  • Apply charge, baryon-number and lepton-number conservation to reactions.