Particle Physics - FSU Physics Department
Particle Physics - FSU Physics Department
Particle Physics - FSU Physics Department
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Issues of High Energy <strong>Physics</strong><br />
Issues of High Energy <strong>Physics</strong><br />
Basic questions:<br />
• Are there irreducible building blocks?<br />
o How many?<br />
o What are their properties?<br />
• mass? charge? flavor?<br />
• What is mass?<br />
• What is charge ?<br />
• How do the building blocks interact?<br />
o forces?<br />
o Differences? similarities?<br />
• Why more matter than antimatter?<br />
• why is our universe the way it is?<br />
o Coincidence?<br />
o Theoretical necessity<br />
o Design?<br />
Why do we want to know?<br />
• Curiosity<br />
• Understanding constituents may help in understanding composites<br />
• Implications for origin and destiny of Universe<br />
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