NATS 1740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Electronvolt, Particle Detector, Antiparticle

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1740
• Professor: Radu Campeanu

Document Summary

Accelerate projectiles until the wavelength of the probability wave becomes smaller than the size of the particles studied. When enough energy is available nature will create all particles (e=mc2 ) Particles appear together with the corresponding anti-particle. Observing the structure of matter at nuclear or subnuclear scale is similar to. The smaller the target the higher the energy of the projectiles. The higher the projectile energy the smaller its probability wave. The higher the impact energy the more complex impact phenomena will be. Instead of a simple scattering process the target can break into pieces; the interpretation of the whole process becomes more complicated and computerized detectors are needed. All accelerate charged particles using electromagnetic fields. Possible projectiles: electrons, protons and their antiparticles. Types of accelerators : linear or circular. The super-collider is a double circular accelerator. Energies and particle masses measured in gev (billions of electron-volts)