Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Standard Model

Index Standard Model

The Standard Model of particle physics is the theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions, and not including the gravitational force) in the universe, as well as classifying all known elementary particles. [1]

192 relations: Abdus Salam, Abraham Pais, Accelerating expansion of the universe, Alternatives to the Standard Higgs Model, Anomaly (physics), Antimatter, Antiparticle, Asymptotic freedom, Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity, ATLAS experiment, Atomic nucleus, Baryon, Baryon asymmetry, Boson, Bottom quark, Bound state, BTeV experiment, Cambridge University Press, CERN, CERN Courier, Charge (physics), Charm quark, Chirality (physics), CNN, Cold dark matter, Color charge, Color confinement, Compact Muon Solenoid, Coupling constant, CP violation, CRC Press, Dark energy, Dark matter, David Callaway, Down quark, Electric charge, Electricity, Electromagnetic tensor, Electromagnetism, Electron, Electron neutrino, Electronvolt, Electroweak interaction, Elementary particle, Energy, European Physical Journal C, Experimental physics, Extra dimensions, Fermi's interaction, Fermilab, ..., Fermion, Feynman diagram, Field (physics), Finite group, Flavour (particle physics), Force, Force carrier, Fundamental interaction, Gamma matrices, Gargamelle, Gauge boson, Gauge theory, Gell-Mann matrices, General relativity, Generation (particle physics), Global symmetry, Gluon, Grand Unified Theory, Graviton, Gravity, Hadron, Hierarchy problem, Higgs boson, Higgs mechanism, Homogeneity (physics), Inflation (cosmology), Institute of Physics, Integer, International Journal of Modern Physics, Introduction to gauge theory, Isotropy, John Clive Ward, John Wiley & Sons, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University Press, Kinematics, Lagrangian (field theory), Lambda-CDM model, Landau pole, Large Hadron Collider, Lattice gauge theory, Leonard Susskind, Lepton, List of mesons, List of particles, Local symmetry, Macroscopic scale, Magnetic field, Mass, Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model, Matter, Meson, Muon, Muon neutrino, Neutral current, Neutrino, Neutrino oscillation, Neutron, Nobel Prize in Physics, North Holland, Nuclear Physics (journal), Number density, Oxford University Press, Particle, Particle accelerator, Particle physics, Pauli exclusion principle, Pauli matrices, Penguin diagram, Penguin Group, Perseus Books Group, Perturbation theory, Peter Higgs, Phenomenology (particle physics), Photon, Physical cosmology, Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Physics Letters, Physics Reports, Pion, Planck length, Plume (publisher), Poincaré group, Prediction, Proton, QCD matter, Quantum chromodynamics, Quantum electrodynamics, Quantum field theory, Quantum triviality, Quark, Quark model, Renormalization, Representation of a Lie group, Rho meson, Rotational symmetry, RT (TV network), Sakurai Prize, Sam Treiman, Scalar (physics), Scalar field theory, Scientific law, Scientific method, Seesaw mechanism, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Soliton, Spacetime, Special relativity, Special unitary group, Spin (physics), Spin–statistics theorem, Spontaneous symmetry breaking, Springer Science+Business Media, Static forces and virtual-particle exchange, Steven Weinberg, Strange quark, Strong interaction, Subatomic particle, Supersymmetry, Tau (particle), Tau neutrino, Tevatron, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The New York Times, Theoretical physics, Theory of everything, Top quark, Translational symmetry, Unified field theory, Universe, Up quark, W and Z bosons, Weak hypercharge, Weak interaction, Weak isospin, Yang–Mills existence and mass gap, Yang–Mills theory, YouTube, Yukawa interaction, 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers. Expand index (142 more) »

Abdus Salam

Mohammad Abdus Salam Salam adopted the forename "Mohammad" in 1974 in response to the anti-Ahmadiyya decrees in Pakistan, similarly he grew his beard.

New!!: Standard Model and Abdus Salam · See more »

Abraham Pais

Abraham Pais (May 19, 1918 – July 28, 2000) was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian.

New!!: Standard Model and Abraham Pais · See more »

Accelerating expansion of the universe

The accelerating expansion of the universe is the observation that the universe appears to be expanding at an increasing rate, so that the velocity at which a distant galaxy is receding from the observer is continuously increasing with time.

New!!: Standard Model and Accelerating expansion of the universe · See more »

Alternatives to the Standard Higgs Model

The Alternative models to the Standard Higgs Model are models which are considered by many particle physicists to solve some of Higgs boson's existing problems.

New!!: Standard Model and Alternatives to the Standard Higgs Model · See more »

Anomaly (physics)

In quantum physics an anomaly or quantum anomaly is the failure of a symmetry of a theory's classical action to be a symmetry of any regularization of the full quantum theory.

New!!: Standard Model and Anomaly (physics) · See more »

Antimatter

In modern physics, antimatter is defined as a material composed of the antiparticle (or "partners") to the corresponding particles of ordinary matter.

New!!: Standard Model and Antimatter · See more »

Antiparticle

In particle physics, every type of particle has an associated antiparticle with the same mass but with opposite physical charges (such as electric charge).

New!!: Standard Model and Antiparticle · See more »

Asymptotic freedom

In particle physics, asymptotic freedom is a property of some gauge theories that causes interactions between particles to become asymptotically weaker as the energy scale increases and the corresponding length scale decreases.

New!!: Standard Model and Asymptotic freedom · See more »

Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity

Asymptotic safety (sometimes also referred to as nonperturbative renormalizability) is a concept in quantum field theory which aims at finding a consistent and predictive quantum theory of the gravitational field.

New!!: Standard Model and Asymptotic safety in quantum gravity · See more »

ATLAS experiment

ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) is one of the seven particle detector experiments constructed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland.

New!!: Standard Model and ATLAS experiment · See more »

Atomic nucleus

The atomic nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford based on the 1909 Geiger–Marsden gold foil experiment.

New!!: Standard Model and Atomic nucleus · See more »

Baryon

A baryon is a composite subatomic particle made up of three quarks (a triquark, as distinct from mesons, which are composed of one quark and one antiquark).

New!!: Standard Model and Baryon · See more »

Baryon asymmetry

In physics, the baryon asymmetry problem, also known as the matter asymmetry problem or the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem, is the observed imbalance in baryonic matter (the type of matter experienced in everyday life) and antibaryonic matter in the observable universe.

New!!: Standard Model and Baryon asymmetry · See more »

Boson

In quantum mechanics, a boson is a particle that follows Bose–Einstein statistics.

New!!: Standard Model and Boson · See more »

Bottom quark

The bottom quark or b quark, also known as the beauty quark, is a third-generation quark with a charge of − ''e''.

New!!: Standard Model and Bottom quark · See more »

Bound state

In quantum physics, a bound state is a special quantum state of a particle subject to a potential such that the particle has a tendency to remain localised in one or more regions of space.

New!!: Standard Model and Bound state · See more »

BTeV experiment

The BTeV experiment — for B meson TeV (teraelectronvolt) — was an experiment in high-energy particle physics designed to challenge the Standard Model explanation of CP violation, mixing and rare decays of bottom and charm quark states.

New!!: Standard Model and BTeV experiment · See more »

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

New!!: Standard Model and Cambridge University Press · See more »

CERN

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN (derived from the name Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.

New!!: Standard Model and CERN · See more »

CERN Courier

CERN Courier (or sometimes CERN Courier: International Journal of High Energy Physics) is a monthly trade magazine covering current developments in high-energy physics and related fields worldwide.

New!!: Standard Model and CERN Courier · See more »

Charge (physics)

In physics, a charge may refer to one of many different quantities, such as the electric charge in electromagnetism or the color charge in quantum chromodynamics.

New!!: Standard Model and Charge (physics) · See more »

Charm quark

The charm quark, charmed quark or c quark (from its symbol, c) is the third most massive of all quarks, a type of elementary particle.

New!!: Standard Model and Charm quark · See more »

Chirality (physics)

A chiral phenomenon is one that is not identical to its mirror image (see the article on mathematical chirality).

New!!: Standard Model and Chirality (physics) · See more »

CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

New!!: Standard Model and CNN · See more »

Cold dark matter

In cosmology and physics, cold dark matter (CDM) is a hypothetical form of dark matter whose particles moved slowly compared to the speed of light (the cold in CDM) since the universe was approximately one year old (a time when the cosmic particle horizon contained the mass of one typical galaxy); and interact very weakly with ordinary matter and electromagnetic radiation (the dark in CDM).

New!!: Standard Model and Cold dark matter · See more »

Color charge

Color charge is a property of quarks and gluons that is related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

New!!: Standard Model and Color charge · See more »

Color confinement

In quantum chromodynamics (QCD), color confinement, often simply called confinement, is the phenomenon that color charged particles (such as quarks and gluons) cannot be isolated, and therefore cannot be directly observed in normal conditions below the Hagedorn temperature of approximately 2 trillion kelvin (corresponding to energies of approximately 130–140 MeV per particle).

New!!: Standard Model and Color confinement · See more »

Compact Muon Solenoid

The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland and France.

New!!: Standard Model and Compact Muon Solenoid · See more »

Coupling constant

In physics, a coupling constant or gauge coupling parameter is a number that determines the strength of the force exerted in an interaction.

New!!: Standard Model and Coupling constant · See more »

CP violation

In particle physics, CP violation is a violation of CP-symmetry (or charge conjugation parity symmetry): the combination of C-symmetry (charge conjugation symmetry) and P-symmetry (parity symmetry).

New!!: Standard Model and CP violation · See more »

CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group based in the United States that specializes in producing technical books.

New!!: Standard Model and CRC Press · See more »

Dark energy

In physical cosmology and astronomy, dark energy is an unknown form of energy which is hypothesized to permeate all of space, tending to accelerate the expansion of the universe.

New!!: Standard Model and Dark energy · See more »

Dark matter

Dark matter is a theorized form of matter that is thought to account for approximately 80% of the matter in the universe, and about a quarter of its total energy density.

New!!: Standard Model and Dark matter · See more »

David Callaway

David J. E. Callaway is a biological nanophysicist in the New York University School of Medicine, where he is Professor and Laboratory Director.

New!!: Standard Model and David Callaway · See more »

Down quark

The down quark or d quark (symbol: d) is the second-lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle, and a major constituent of matter.

New!!: Standard Model and Down quark · See more »

Electric charge

Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.

New!!: Standard Model and Electric charge · See more »

Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.

New!!: Standard Model and Electricity · See more »

Electromagnetic tensor

In electromagnetism, the electromagnetic tensor or electromagnetic field tensor (sometimes called the field strength tensor, Faraday tensor or Maxwell bivector) is a mathematical object that describes the electromagnetic field in spacetime.

New!!: Standard Model and Electromagnetic tensor · See more »

Electromagnetism

Electromagnetism is a branch of physics involving the study of the electromagnetic force, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged particles.

New!!: Standard Model and Electromagnetism · See more »

Electron

The electron is a subatomic particle, symbol or, whose electric charge is negative one elementary charge.

New!!: Standard Model and Electron · See more »

Electron neutrino

The electron neutrino is a subatomic lepton elementary particle which has no net electric charge.

New!!: Standard Model and Electron neutrino · See more »

Electronvolt

In physics, the electronvolt (symbol eV, also written electron-volt and electron volt) is a unit of energy equal to approximately joules (symbol J).

New!!: Standard Model and Electronvolt · See more »

Electroweak interaction

In particle physics, the electroweak interaction is the unified description of two of the four known fundamental interactions of nature: electromagnetism and the weak interaction.

New!!: Standard Model and Electroweak interaction · See more »

Elementary particle

In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a particle with no substructure, thus not composed of other particles.

New!!: Standard Model and Elementary particle · See more »

Energy

In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object.

New!!: Standard Model and Energy · See more »

European Physical Journal C

The European Physical Journal C (EPJ C) is a biweekly peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal covering theoretical and experimental physics.

New!!: Standard Model and European Physical Journal C · See more »

Experimental physics

Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena and experiments.

New!!: Standard Model and Experimental physics · See more »

Extra dimensions

In physics, extra dimensions are proposed additional space or time dimensions beyond the (3 + 1) typical of observed spacetime, such as the first attempts based on the Kaluza–Klein theory.

New!!: Standard Model and Extra dimensions · See more »

Fermi's interaction

In particle physics, Fermi's interaction (also the Fermi theory of beta decay) is an explanation of the beta decay, proposed by Enrico Fermi in 1933.

New!!: Standard Model and Fermi's interaction · See more »

Fermilab

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.

New!!: Standard Model and Fermilab · See more »

Fermion

In particle physics, a fermion is a particle that follows Fermi–Dirac statistics.

New!!: Standard Model and Fermion · See more »

Feynman diagram

In theoretical physics, Feynman diagrams are pictorial representations of the mathematical expressions describing the behavior of subatomic particles.

New!!: Standard Model and Feynman diagram · See more »

Field (physics)

In physics, a field is a physical quantity, represented by a number or tensor, that has a value for each point in space and time.

New!!: Standard Model and Field (physics) · See more »

Finite group

In abstract algebra, a finite group is a mathematical group with a finite number of elements.

New!!: Standard Model and Finite group · See more »

Flavour (particle physics)

In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle.

New!!: Standard Model and Flavour (particle physics) · See more »

Force

In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object.

New!!: Standard Model and Force · See more »

Force carrier

In particle physics, force carriers or messenger particles or intermediate particles are particles that give rise to forces between other particles.

New!!: Standard Model and Force carrier · See more »

Fundamental interaction

In physics, the fundamental interactions, also known as fundamental forces, are the interactions that do not appear to be reducible to more basic interactions.

New!!: Standard Model and Fundamental interaction · See more »

Gamma matrices

In mathematical physics, the gamma matrices, \, also known as the Dirac matrices, are a set of conventional matrices with specific anticommutation relations that ensure they generate a matrix representation of the Clifford algebra Cℓ1,3(R).

New!!: Standard Model and Gamma matrices · See more »

Gargamelle

Gargamelle was a heavy liquid bubble chamber detector in operation at CERN between 1970 and 1979.

New!!: Standard Model and Gargamelle · See more »

Gauge boson

In particle physics, a gauge boson is a force carrier, a bosonic particle that carries any of the fundamental interactions of nature, commonly called forces.

New!!: Standard Model and Gauge boson · See more »

Gauge theory

In physics, a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian is invariant under certain Lie groups of local transformations.

New!!: Standard Model and Gauge theory · See more »

Gell-Mann matrices

The Gell-Mann matrices, developed by Murray Gell-Mann, are a set of eight linearly independent 3x3 traceless Hermitian matrices used in the study of the strong interaction in particle physics.

New!!: Standard Model and Gell-Mann matrices · See more »

General relativity

General relativity (GR, also known as the general theory of relativity or GTR) is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics.

New!!: Standard Model and General relativity · See more »

Generation (particle physics)

In particle physics, a generation or family is a division of the elementary particles.

New!!: Standard Model and Generation (particle physics) · See more »

Global symmetry

In physics, a global symmetry is a symmetry that holds at all points in the spacetime under consideration, as opposed to a local symmetry which varies from point to point.

New!!: Standard Model and Global symmetry · See more »

Gluon

A gluon is an elementary particle that acts as the exchange particle (or gauge boson) for the strong force between quarks.

New!!: Standard Model and Gluon · See more »

Grand Unified Theory

A Grand Unified Theory (GUT) is a model in particle physics in which, at high energy, the three gauge interactions of the Standard Model which define the electromagnetic, weak, and strong interactions, or forces, are merged into one single force.

New!!: Standard Model and Grand Unified Theory · See more »

Graviton

In theories of quantum gravity, the graviton is the hypothetical elementary particle that mediates the force of gravity.

New!!: Standard Model and Graviton · See more »

Gravity

Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.

New!!: Standard Model and Gravity · See more »

Hadron

In particle physics, a hadron (ἁδρός, hadrós, "stout, thick") is a composite particle made of quarks held together by the strong force in a similar way as molecules are held together by the electromagnetic force.

New!!: Standard Model and Hadron · See more »

Hierarchy problem

In theoretical physics, the hierarchy problem is the large discrepancy between aspects of the weak force and gravity.

New!!: Standard Model and Hierarchy problem · See more »

Higgs boson

The Higgs boson is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics.

New!!: Standard Model and Higgs boson · See more »

Higgs mechanism

In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons.

New!!: Standard Model and Higgs mechanism · See more »

Homogeneity (physics)

In physics, a homogeneous material or system has the same properties at every point; it is uniform without irregularities.

New!!: Standard Model and Homogeneity (physics) · See more »

Inflation (cosmology)

In physical cosmology, cosmic inflation, cosmological inflation, or just inflation, is a theory of exponential expansion of space in the early universe.

New!!: Standard Model and Inflation (cosmology) · See more »

Institute of Physics

The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a scientific charity that works to advance physics education, research and application.

New!!: Standard Model and Institute of Physics · See more »

Integer

An integer (from the Latin ''integer'' meaning "whole")Integer 's first literal meaning in Latin is "untouched", from in ("not") plus tangere ("to touch").

New!!: Standard Model and Integer · See more »

International Journal of Modern Physics

The International Journal of Modern Physics is a series of Physics journals published by World Scientific.

New!!: Standard Model and International Journal of Modern Physics · See more »

Introduction to gauge theory

A gauge theory is a type of theory in physics.

New!!: Standard Model and Introduction to gauge theory · See more »

Isotropy

Isotropy is uniformity in all orientations; it is derived from the Greek isos (ἴσος, "equal") and tropos (τρόπος, "way").

New!!: Standard Model and Isotropy · See more »

John Clive Ward

John Clive Ward, (1 August 1924 – 6 May 2000) was a British-Australian physicist.

New!!: Standard Model and John Clive Ward · See more »

John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.

New!!: Standard Model and John Wiley & Sons · See more »

Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

New!!: Standard Model and Johns Hopkins University · See more »

Johns Hopkins University Press

The Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

New!!: Standard Model and Johns Hopkins University Press · See more »

Kinematics

Kinematics is a branch of classical mechanics that describes the motion of points, bodies (objects), and systems of bodies (groups of objects) without considering the mass of each or the forces that caused the motion.

New!!: Standard Model and Kinematics · See more »

Lagrangian (field theory)

Lagrangian field theory is a formalism in classical field theory.

New!!: Standard Model and Lagrangian (field theory) · See more »

Lambda-CDM model

The ΛCDM (Lambda cold dark matter) or Lambda-CDM model is a parametrization of the Big Bang cosmological model in which the universe contains a cosmological constant, denoted by Lambda (Greek Λ), associated with dark energy, and cold dark matter (abbreviated CDM).

New!!: Standard Model and Lambda-CDM model · See more »

Landau pole

In physics, the Landau pole (or the Moscow zero, or the Landau ghost) is the momentum (or energy) scale at which the coupling constant (interaction strength) of a quantum field theory becomes infinite.

New!!: Standard Model and Landau pole · See more »

Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the most complex experimental facility ever built and the largest single machine in the world.

New!!: Standard Model and Large Hadron Collider · See more »

Lattice gauge theory

In physics, lattice gauge theory is the study of gauge theories on a spacetime that has been discretized into a lattice.

New!!: Standard Model and Lattice gauge theory · See more »

Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind (born 1940)his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.

New!!: Standard Model and Leonard Susskind · See more »

Lepton

In particle physics, a lepton is an elementary particle of half-integer spin (spin) that does not undergo strong interactions.

New!!: Standard Model and Lepton · See more »

List of mesons

Mesons are unstable subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark.

New!!: Standard Model and List of mesons · See more »

List of particles

This article includes a list of the different types of atomic- and sub-atomic particles found or hypothesized to exist in the whole of the universe categorized by type.

New!!: Standard Model and List of particles · See more »

Local symmetry

In physics, a local symmetry is symmetry of some physical quantity, which smoothly depends on the point of the base manifold.

New!!: Standard Model and Local symmetry · See more »

Macroscopic scale

The macroscopic scale is the length scale on which objects or phenomena are large enough to be visible almost practically with the naked eye, without magnifying optical instruments.

New!!: Standard Model and Macroscopic scale · See more »

Magnetic field

A magnetic field is a vector field that describes the magnetic influence of electrical currents and magnetized materials.

New!!: Standard Model and Magnetic field · See more »

Mass

Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a net force is applied.

New!!: Standard Model and Mass · See more »

Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model

This article describes the mathematics of the Standard Model of particle physics, a gauge quantum field theory containing the internal symmetries of the unitary product group.

New!!: Standard Model and Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model · See more »

Matter

In the classical physics observed in everyday life, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume.

New!!: Standard Model and Matter · See more »

Meson

In particle physics, mesons are hadronic subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark, bound together by strong interactions.

New!!: Standard Model and Meson · See more »

Muon

The muon (from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with an electric charge of −1 e and a spin of 1/2, but with a much greater mass.

New!!: Standard Model and Muon · See more »

Muon neutrino

The muon neutrino is a lepton, an elementary subatomic particle which has the symbol and no net electric charge.

New!!: Standard Model and Muon neutrino · See more »

Neutral current

Weak neutral current interactions are one of the ways in which subatomic particles can interact by means of the weak force.

New!!: Standard Model and Neutral current · See more »

Neutrino

A neutrino (denoted by the Greek letter ν) is a fermion (an elementary particle with half-integer spin) that interacts only via the weak subatomic force and gravity.

New!!: Standard Model and Neutrino · See more »

Neutrino oscillation

Neutrino oscillation is a quantum mechanical phenomenon whereby a neutrino created with a specific lepton flavor (electron, muon, or tau) can later be measured to have a different flavor.

New!!: Standard Model and Neutrino oscillation · See more »

Neutron

| magnetic_moment.

New!!: Standard Model and Neutron · See more »

Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is a yearly award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who conferred the most outstanding contributions for mankind in the field of physics.

New!!: Standard Model and Nobel Prize in Physics · See more »

North Holland

North Holland (Noord-Holland, West Frisian Dutch: Noard-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands located in the northwestern part of the country.

New!!: Standard Model and North Holland · See more »

Nuclear Physics (journal)

Nuclear Physics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.

New!!: Standard Model and Nuclear Physics (journal) · See more »

Number density

In physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology and geography, number density (symbol: n or ρN) is an intensive quantity used to describe the degree of concentration of countable objects (particles, molecules, phonons, cells, galaxies, etc.) in physical space: three-dimensional volumetric number density, two-dimensional areal number density, or one-dimensional line number density.

New!!: Standard Model and Number density · See more »

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

New!!: Standard Model and Oxford University Press · See more »

Particle

In the physical sciences, a particle (or corpuscule in older texts) is a small localized object to which can be ascribed several physical or chemical properties such as volume, density or mass.

New!!: Standard Model and Particle · See more »

Particle accelerator

A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel charged particles to nearly light speed and to contain them in well-defined beams.

New!!: Standard Model and Particle accelerator · See more »

Particle physics

Particle physics (also high energy physics) is the branch of physics that studies the nature of the particles that constitute matter and radiation.

New!!: Standard Model and Particle physics · See more »

Pauli exclusion principle

The Pauli exclusion principle is the quantum mechanical principle which states that two or more identical fermions (particles with half-integer spin) cannot occupy the same quantum state within a quantum system simultaneously.

New!!: Standard Model and Pauli exclusion principle · See more »

Pauli matrices

In mathematical physics and mathematics, the Pauli matrices are a set of three complex matrices which are Hermitian and unitary.

New!!: Standard Model and Pauli matrices · See more »

Penguin diagram

In quantum field theory, penguin diagrams are a class of Feynman diagrams which are important for understanding CP violating processes in the standard model.

New!!: Standard Model and Penguin diagram · See more »

Penguin Group

The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House.

New!!: Standard Model and Penguin Group · See more »

Perseus Books Group

Perseus Books Group was an American publishing company founded in 1996 by investor Frank Pearl.

New!!: Standard Model and Perseus Books Group · See more »

Perturbation theory

Perturbation theory comprises mathematical methods for finding an approximate solution to a problem, by starting from the exact solution of a related, simpler problem.

New!!: Standard Model and Perturbation theory · See more »

Peter Higgs

Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, emeritus professor in the University of Edinburgh,Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008) Edit the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17 and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

New!!: Standard Model and Peter Higgs · See more »

Phenomenology (particle physics)

Particle physics phenomenology is the part of theoretical particle physics that deals with the application of theoretical physics to high-energy experiments.

New!!: Standard Model and Phenomenology (particle physics) · See more »

Photon

The photon is a type of elementary particle, the quantum of the electromagnetic field including electromagnetic radiation such as light, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force (even when static via virtual particles).

New!!: Standard Model and Photon · See more »

Physical cosmology

Physical cosmology is the study of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the Universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its origin, structure, evolution, and ultimate fate.

New!!: Standard Model and Physical cosmology · See more »

Physical Review

Physical Review is an American peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1893 by Edward Nichols.

New!!: Standard Model and Physical Review · See more »

Physical Review Letters

Physical Review Letters (PRL), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society.

New!!: Standard Model and Physical Review Letters · See more »

Physics beyond the Standard Model

Physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) refers to the theoretical developments needed to explain the deficiencies of the Standard Model, such as the origin of mass, the strong CP problem, neutrino oscillations, matter–antimatter asymmetry, and the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

New!!: Standard Model and Physics beyond the Standard Model · See more »

Physics Letters

Physics Letters was a scientific journal published from 1962 to 1966, when it split in two series now published by Elsevier.

New!!: Standard Model and Physics Letters · See more »

Physics Reports

Physics Reports is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, a review section of Physics Letters that has been published by Elsevier since 1971.

New!!: Standard Model and Physics Reports · See more »

Pion

In particle physics, a pion (or a pi meson, denoted with the Greek letter pi) is any of three subatomic particles:,, and.

New!!: Standard Model and Pion · See more »

Planck length

In physics, the Planck length, denoted, is a unit of length, equal to metres.

New!!: Standard Model and Planck length · See more »

Plume (publisher)

Plume is a publishing company in the United States, founded in 1970 as the trade paperback imprint of New American Library.

New!!: Standard Model and Plume (publisher) · See more »

Poincaré group

The Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré (1906), was first defined by Minkowski (1908) as the group of Minkowski spacetime isometries.

New!!: Standard Model and Poincaré group · See more »

Prediction

A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dicere, "to say"), or forecast, is a statement about a future event.

New!!: Standard Model and Prediction · See more »

Proton

| magnetic_moment.

New!!: Standard Model and Proton · See more »

QCD matter

Quark matter or QCD matter refers to any of a number of theorized phases of matter whose degrees of freedom include quarks and gluons.

New!!: Standard Model and QCD matter · See more »

Quantum chromodynamics

In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of the strong interaction between quarks and gluons, the fundamental particles that make up composite hadrons such as the proton, neutron and pion.

New!!: Standard Model and Quantum chromodynamics · See more »

Quantum electrodynamics

In particle physics, quantum electrodynamics (QED) is the relativistic quantum field theory of electrodynamics.

New!!: Standard Model and Quantum electrodynamics · See more »

Quantum field theory

In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is the theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of subatomic particles in particle physics and quasiparticles in condensed matter physics.

New!!: Standard Model and Quantum field theory · See more »

Quantum triviality

In a quantum field theory, charge screening can restrict the value of the observable "renormalized" charge of a classical theory.

New!!: Standard Model and Quantum triviality · See more »

Quark

A quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.

New!!: Standard Model and Quark · See more »

Quark model

In particle physics, the quark model is a classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks—the quarks and antiquarks which give rise to the quantum numbers of the hadrons.

New!!: Standard Model and Quark model · See more »

Renormalization

Renormalization is a collection of techniques in quantum field theory, the statistical mechanics of fields, and the theory of self-similar geometric structures, that are used to treat infinities arising in calculated quantities by altering values of quantities to compensate for effects of their self-interactions.

New!!: Standard Model and Renormalization · See more »

Representation of a Lie group

In mathematics and theoretical physics, the idea of a representation of a Lie group plays an important role in the study of continuous symmetry.

New!!: Standard Model and Representation of a Lie group · See more »

Rho meson

In particle physics, a rho meson is a short-lived hadronic particle that is an isospin triplet whose three states are denoted as, and.

New!!: Standard Model and Rho meson · See more »

Rotational symmetry

Rotational symmetry, also known as radial symmetry in biology, is the property a shape has when it looks the same after some rotation by a partial turn.

New!!: Standard Model and Rotational symmetry · See more »

RT (TV network)

RT (formerly Russia Today) is a Russian international television network funded by the Russian government.

New!!: Standard Model and RT (TV network) · See more »

Sakurai Prize

The J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics, is presented by the American Physical Society at its annual "April Meeting", and honors outstanding achievement in particle physics theory.

New!!: Standard Model and Sakurai Prize · See more »

Sam Treiman

Sam Bard Treiman (May 27, 1925 – November 30, 1999) was an American theoretical physicist who produced research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics.

New!!: Standard Model and Sam Treiman · See more »

Scalar (physics)

A scalar or scalar quantity in physics is a physical quantity that can be described by a single element of a number field such as a real number, often accompanied by units of measurement.

New!!: Standard Model and Scalar (physics) · See more »

Scalar field theory

In theoretical physics, scalar field theory can refer to a relativistically invariant classical or quantum theory of scalar fields.

New!!: Standard Model and Scalar field theory · See more »

Scientific law

A scientific law is a statement based on repeated experimental observations that describes some aspect of the universe.

New!!: Standard Model and Scientific law · See more »

Scientific method

Scientific method is an empirical method of knowledge acquisition, which has characterized the development of natural science since at least the 17th century, involving careful observation, which includes rigorous skepticism about what one observes, given that cognitive assumptions about how the world works influence how one interprets a percept; formulating hypotheses, via induction, based on such observations; experimental testing and measurement of deductions drawn from the hypotheses; and refinement (or elimination) of the hypotheses based on the experimental findings.

New!!: Standard Model and Scientific method · See more »

Seesaw mechanism

In the theory of grand unification of particle physics, and, in particular, in theories of neutrino masses and neutrino oscillation, the seesaw mechanism is a generic model used to understand the relative sizes of observed neutrino masses, of the order of eV, compared to those of quarks and charged leptons, which are millions of times heavier.

New!!: Standard Model and Seesaw mechanism · See more »

Sheldon Lee Glashow

Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932) is a Nobel Prize winning American theoretical physicist.

New!!: Standard Model and Sheldon Lee Glashow · See more »

Soliton

In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a self-reinforcing solitary wave packet that maintains its shape while it propagates at a constant velocity.

New!!: Standard Model and Soliton · See more »

Spacetime

In physics, spacetime is any mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum.

New!!: Standard Model and Spacetime · See more »

Special relativity

In physics, special relativity (SR, also known as the special theory of relativity or STR) is the generally accepted and experimentally well-confirmed physical theory regarding the relationship between space and time.

New!!: Standard Model and Special relativity · See more »

Special unitary group

In mathematics, the special unitary group of degree, denoted, is the Lie group of unitary matrices with determinant 1.

New!!: Standard Model and Special unitary group · See more »

Spin (physics)

In quantum mechanics and particle physics, spin is an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles, composite particles (hadrons), and atomic nuclei.

New!!: Standard Model and Spin (physics) · See more »

Spin–statistics theorem

In quantum mechanics, the spin–statistics theorem relates the intrinsic spin of a particle (angular momentum not due to the orbital motion) to the particle statistics it obeys.

New!!: Standard Model and Spin–statistics theorem · See more »

Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a spontaneous process of symmetry breaking, by which a physical system in a symmetric state ends up in an asymmetric state.

New!!: Standard Model and Spontaneous symmetry breaking · See more »

Springer Science+Business Media

Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

New!!: Standard Model and Springer Science+Business Media · See more »

Static forces and virtual-particle exchange

Static force fields are fields, such as a simple electric, magnetic or gravitational fields, that exist without excitations.

New!!: Standard Model and Static forces and virtual-particle exchange · See more »

Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.

New!!: Standard Model and Steven Weinberg · See more »

Strange quark

The strange quark or s quark (from its symbol, s) is the third lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle.

New!!: Standard Model and Strange quark · See more »

Strong interaction

In particle physics, the strong interaction is the mechanism responsible for the strong nuclear force (also called the strong force or nuclear strong force), and is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the others being electromagnetism, the weak interaction, and gravitation.

New!!: Standard Model and Strong interaction · See more »

Subatomic particle

In the physical sciences, subatomic particles are particles much smaller than atoms.

New!!: Standard Model and Subatomic particle · See more »

Supersymmetry

In particle physics, supersymmetry (SUSY) is a theory that proposes a relationship between two basic classes of elementary particles: bosons, which have an integer-valued spin, and fermions, which have a half-integer spin.

New!!: Standard Model and Supersymmetry · See more »

Tau (particle)

The tau (τ), also called the tau lepton, tau particle, or tauon, is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with negative electric charge and a 2.

New!!: Standard Model and Tau (particle) · See more »

Tau neutrino

The tau neutrino or tauon neutrino is a subatomic elementary particle which has the symbol and no net electric charge.

New!!: Standard Model and Tau neutrino · See more »

Tevatron

The Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator (now inactive, since 2011) in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (also known as Fermilab), east of Batavia, Illinois, and holds the title of the second highest energy particle collider in the world, after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland.

New!!: Standard Model and Tevatron · See more »

The Feynman Lectures on Physics

The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a physics textbook based on some lectures by Richard P. Feynman, a Nobel laureate who has sometimes been called "The Great Explainer".

New!!: Standard Model and The Feynman Lectures on Physics · See more »

The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

New!!: Standard Model and The New York Times · See more »

Theoretical physics

Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena.

New!!: Standard Model and Theoretical physics · See more »

Theory of everything

A theory of everything (ToE), final theory, ultimate theory, or master theory is a hypothetical single, all-encompassing, coherent theoretical framework of physics that fully explains and links together all physical aspects of the universe.

New!!: Standard Model and Theory of everything · See more »

Top quark

The top quark, also known as the t quark (symbol: t) or truth quark, is the most massive of all observed elementary particles.

New!!: Standard Model and Top quark · See more »

Translational symmetry

In geometry, a translation "slides" a thing by a: Ta(p).

New!!: Standard Model and Translational symmetry · See more »

Unified field theory

In physics, a unified field theory (UFT) is a type of field theory that allows all that is usually thought of as fundamental forces and elementary particles to be written in terms of a pair of physical and virtual fields.

New!!: Standard Model and Unified field theory · See more »

Universe

The Universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy.

New!!: Standard Model and Universe · See more »

Up quark

The up quark or u quark (symbol: u) is the lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle, and a major constituent of matter.

New!!: Standard Model and Up quark · See more »

W and Z bosons

The W and Z bosons are together known as the weak or more generally as the intermediate vector bosons. These elementary particles mediate the weak interaction; the respective symbols are,, and.

New!!: Standard Model and W and Z bosons · See more »

Weak hypercharge

In the Standard Model of electroweak interactions of particle physics, the weak hypercharge is a quantum number relating the electric charge and the third component of weak isospin.

New!!: Standard Model and Weak hypercharge · See more »

Weak interaction

In particle physics, the weak interaction (the weak force or weak nuclear force) is the mechanism of interaction between sub-atomic particles that causes radioactive decay and thus plays an essential role in nuclear fission.

New!!: Standard Model and Weak interaction · See more »

Weak isospin

In particle physics, weak isospin is a quantum number relating to the weak interaction, and parallels the idea of isospin under the strong interaction.

New!!: Standard Model and Weak isospin · See more »

Yang–Mills existence and mass gap

In mathematical physics, the Yang–Mills existence and mass gap problem is an unsolved problem and one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems defined by the Clay Mathematics Institute, which has offered a prize of US$1,000,000 to the one who solves it.

New!!: Standard Model and Yang–Mills existence and mass gap · See more »

Yang–Mills theory

Yang–Mills theory is a gauge theory based on the SU(''N'') group, or more generally any compact, reductive Lie algebra.

New!!: Standard Model and Yang–Mills theory · See more »

YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

New!!: Standard Model and YouTube · See more »

Yukawa interaction

In particle physics, Yukawa's interaction or Yukawa coupling, named after Hideki Yukawa, is an interaction between a scalar field ϕ and a Dirac field ψ of the type The Yukawa interaction can be used to describe the nuclear force between nucleons (which are fermions), mediated by pions (which are pseudoscalar mesons).

New!!: Standard Model and Yukawa interaction · See more »

1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers

The 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers were written by three teams who proposed related but different approaches to explain how mass could arise in local gauge theories.

New!!: Standard Model and 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers · See more »

Redirects here:

Introduction to the Standard Model, Minimal standard model, Particle physics standard model, Standard Model of Particle Physics, Standard Model of particle physics, Standard model, Standard model (basic details), Standard model of particle physics, Standard model of the universe, The Standard Model, The Standard Model of Particle Physics, The Standard model, The standard model.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »