Week 13-14: Mesons, Baryons and Quarks - An Overview.

Learning Outcomes:

The fundamental particles may be classified into groups in several ways.  First, all particles are classified into fermions, which obey Fermi-Dirac statistics and bosons, which obey Bose-Einstein statistics.  Fermions have half-integer spin, while bosons have integer spin.  All the fundamental fermions have spin 1/2.  Electrons and nucleons are fermions with spin 1/2.  The fundamental bosons have mostly spin 1.  This includes the photon.  The pion has spin 0, while the graviton has spin 2.  There are also three particles, the W+, W− and Z0 bosons, which are spin 1.  They are the carriers of the weak interactions.

 

Lesson Plan:

Lecture 01: Mesons

Lecture 02: Baryons

Lecture 03: Quarks

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