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RE: A crash course on particle physics to get prepared for the steemSTEM meetup at CERN - 1 - the structure of matter
I have got a little background in chemistry and math (LK an der Schule und ein-zwei Semester an der Uni :D), so this is not an all too frightening area of science to me. So far we got 2 quarks forming neutrons and protons, 1 neutrino that is created in a specific form of radioactive decay and the good old familar electron. All four of them in 3 different weight classes, so far so good, when do we start with the hard stuff? :P
In my next post (in a couple of days, probably), I will start discussing how those guys interact with each other and what are gauge symmetries (in a couple of words, no fancy details). And of course, I may introduce the Higgs. Depending on how long the post get (I try not to be above 1500 words), the Higgs may be left over for a third post.