• QUESTIONS BEFORE LECTURE 40

now think about these

• Name three kinds of high energy scattering experiments and the target for each.
• What is the smallest constituent of a nucleus?
• How does high energy mean short distance?
• Define fermion, boson, nucleon, hadron, quark, lepton, baryon, meson, color charge, electric charge, weak charge, flavor, mass, and antiparticle.
• Name the three generation of quarks, then of leptons.
• How do quarks and leptons differ? How are they the same?
• What is color neutrality? What is color confinement?
• What are the rules for combining quarks into baryons? into mesons?
• Who all has won the Nobel Prize for predicting or finding evidence for quarks?
• What is known about neutrinos? How do we detect them? What is the biggest unanswered question about them and why is it important?
• What all makes a muon different from an electron?
• Who all has won a Nobel Prize associated with leptons?