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#particlephysics

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Hari Tulsidas

The question of what new particles remain to be discovered drives the work of physicists at the LHC and other particle accelerators. While the discovery of the Higgs boson was monumental, particles could still lie beyond the Standard Model, such as supersymmetric particles, dark matter candidates, or exotic particles that challenge known theories. Each new particle can potentially rewrite our understanding of the universe’s fundamental building blocks. #ParticlePhysics #LHC #CERN

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Hari Tulsidas

Quarks are fundamental particles thought to be permanently confined within protons, neutrons, and other composite particles. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) theory suggests that separating quarks requires immense energy, increasing confinement rather than allowing separation. While strong evidence supports that quarks are bound this way, absolute proof is still elusive. If quark confinement were ever disproven, it would challenge our understanding of particle physics. #Quarks #QCD #ParticlePhysics

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Hari Tulsidas

A curious feature of the Standard Model is that the particles forming ordinary matter—up quarks, down quarks, electrons, and electron neutrinos—each have two heavier copies, known as the second and third generations (e.g., charm and strange quarks, muons). Why do these replicas exist at higher energies if the universe functions predominantly with the lightest generation? The purpose and origin of these “generations” remain unknown. #ParticlePhysics #Mystery #StandardModel

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

April 14 has been designated World Quantum Day in honour of Planck’s Constant which can be rounded to h~ 4.14×10−15 eV·s (and some folks write April 14 as 4/14*). Planck’s constant comes up a lot in quantum mechanics; for instance a photon’s energy is h times its frequency). So I thought I would share Feynman Bauhaus.
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Linocut print ‘Feynman Diagram Bauhaus’ is a hand-carved and printed variable edition on cream-coloured Japanese washi paper, 8" by 10" with a jumble of Feynman diagrams and coloured shapes with a Bauhaus feel. Shapes include circles, rings, triangles, stripes, semicircles and irregular semicircles under wiggly lines. Colours are tints of fuchsia, blue-green, blue, yellow and purple with Feynman diagrams in black lines.
#linocut#printmaking#physics
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