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General Information Lookup:

The Particle Adventure title screen
Glossary
The particle pronunciation guide
Units


The Standard Model Path:

The Thinker: The Start of the Standard Model Path
The Search for the Fundamental
Four Elements
 Answer to Four Elements Question
Introduction to the Atom
Is the Atom Fundamental?
Is the Nucleus Fundamental?
Are Protons and Neutrons Fundamental?
Distorted Atom Diagram
 Atom Model (animated)
Quarks and the Scale of Things
The Fundamental Particles
 Alphabets and Particle Names
The Standard Model
A Summary of the Standard Model
 Standard Model Quiz
 Antimatter
Leptons
 The Lepton Chart
 Lepton Decays
 Possible Lepton Decay Quiz
 Neutrinos
Lonely Leptons
Quarks
 The Quark Chart
 Quark Interactions
 Funny history and naming of quarks
 The Cork Model
 The Top Quark
 A Top Quark Event
Hadrons
 Baryons
 Baryon Chart
 Quiz: Fractional Charge
 Mesons
 Meson Chart
 Hadron Masses
 Quark Quiz
The Generations of Matter
Why are there Generations of Matter?
Standard Model Matter Particles
What holds the world together?
The Four Interactions
 Interactions Chart
 Force Carriers Chart
How does matter interact?
 Physics Cartoon
The Unseen Effect
Mass Attraction Question
Gravity
Electromagnetism
 Photons
Electromagnetism: The Big Question
The Last Two Interactions
Nucleus Binding
Strong
 Color Charge and Containment
Residual Strong
Weak
 Interactions Quiz
 Electroweak
 Flavor
Interactions Summary
 Quiz on Force Carriers
Classification of Particles
Fermions
 Fermions and Bosons Chart
 Fermions and Bosons Quiz
Bosons
Name Warning
 Standard Model Chart
Summary of Standard Model


The Experimental Evidence Path:

Testing a Theory: The Start of the Experimental Evidence Path
Searching for the Atom's Structure
Rutherford's Result
Rutherford's Analysis
How Physicists Experiment
Try it too: Deflected Probe
 Answers to Target Game
Detecting the World
A Better Microscope
 Wavelength and Resolution: The Cave
 Wavelength and Resolution: The Moral
 Wavelength and Resolution Explained
The Physicist's Tool: Accelerators
 Waves and particles
The World's Meterstick
Mass and Energy
Energy-Mass Conversion
Accelerators
 How to Obtain Particles to Accelerate
Accelerating Particles
 Accelerating Particles: Animation
Accelerator Design
Fixed-Target Experiments
Colliding-Beam Experiments
 The Physics of Colliding Beam Experiments
A Linear of Circular Accelerator?
 What makes particles go in a circle?
Advantages of Accelerator Design
The Major Accelerators
 SLAC
 B Factory
 BaBar
 Fermilab
 Superconducting Magnets
 CERN
 LHC and LEP
 Brookhaven
 CESR
 DESY
 KEK
 IHEP
The Event
Detectors
Detector Shapes
Modern Detectors
Typical Detector Components
 Conservation Law Quiz
Measuring Charge and Momentum
Detector Cross Section
 What particle tracks are shown?
The Computer Reconstruction of an Event
 Quark/Gluon Event
The End of the Experimental Evidence Path


Beyond the Standard Model Path:

Beyond the Standard Model
Standard Modeling and Theories
What about masses?
Supersymmetry
Unified Theories
 More about Unified Theories
 Grand Unified Theory
Unified Theory of All Interactions
Dark Matter: A Revolution


An Explanation of Decays:

Radioactivity
Radioactive Particles
Unhappy Physicists: Questions about decay
Residual Strong holds nuclei together
Quantum Mechanics
Half Life
Missing Mass
Particle Decay Mediators: Force Carriers
 Virtual Particles
Different Interactions during Decays
Annihilations
Decay Examples
 Neutron Beta Decay
 Electron/Positron Annihilation
 Animation of Electron/Positron Annihilation
 Top production (proton/antiproton)
 Animation of Top Production
 Charm/Anti-Charm Annihilation
 Bubble Chamber Photograph


The History Path:

Main Physics Timeline
 Ancients: 500 B.C - 1500 A.D.
 Scientific Revolution: 1500 A.D. - 1900 A.D.
 Quantum Theory: 1900 - 1964
 Standard Model: 1964 -
History Index


Educational Information:

Particle Physics Activities
 Activity One (Student)
 Activity Two (Student)
 Activity Three (Student)
 Activity Four (Student)
 Activity Five (Student)
 Activity Six (Student)
 Activity Seven (Student)
Teacher Pages (gatekeeper)


Search / Supplementary Information:

Summary of The Particle Adventure
The Complete Menu
 Search Tools

Index:
 General Index
 Picture Index
 Quizes and Education Index
 Outlines and Project Organization
 Standard Model Outline
 Experimental Evidence Outline
 Beyond Standard Model Outline
 Decay Path Outline
 History Path Outline
Project Credits