1. Particle Placemat

4. The standard model Your A3 placemat will be double-sided!
Use it to help memorise the fundamental particles and the interactions.
Lets do side 1!

5. The Standard Model Fermions – Matter Constituents
Properties of Interactions 1 2 5
Hadrons
Force Mediators 3 4 6 7

6. Table 1
Leptons
Flavour
Mass (GeV / c2)
Charge

7. Table 2
Quarks
Flavour
Mass (GeV / c2)
Relative Charge

8. Baryons (qqq) and Anti-Baryons (qqq)
Table 3
Baryons (qqq) and Anti-Baryons (qqq)
There are about 120 types of Baryon… E.g.
Symbol
Name
Quark Content
Mass (GeV / c2)
Relative Charge

9. There are about 140 types of Meson… E.g.
Table 4
Mesons (qq)
There are about 140 types of Meson… E.g.
Symbol
Name
Quark Content
Mass (GeV / c2)
Relative Charge

10. Table 5 Interaction Property Gravitational Unified Electroweak
Strong Interaction
(Weak)
(EM)
(Fundamental)
(Residual)
Acts on:
Affects particles:
Mediated by:
Relative Strength:
10-18m
10-17m
For 2 protons in a nucleus:

11. Table 6 Name Mass (GeV / c2) Relative Charge Photon (γ) W- W+ Z0
Unified Electroweak
Name
Mass
(GeV / c2)
Relative Charge
Photon (γ) W- W+ Z0

12. Table 7 Name Mass (GeV / c2) Relative Charge Gluon (θ)
Strong Interaction
Name
Mass
(GeV / c2)
Relative Charge
Gluon
(θ)

13. The standard model
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Lets do side 2!

14. Rest mass and Mass-Energy
Lepton Info
Rest mass and Mass-Energy 1 5
Rules for Interactions 2 3 4

15. Table 1
Lepton
Info…

16. Table 2
The following quantities must be conserved in all particle interactions: N.B. 1,2,3,4 and 6 are exam favourites!

17. Table 3
E.g. Beta- (β-) decay:

18. Table 4
Atomic mass units:

19. Table 5
Rest mass