7E10.40 - Quark Models

Code Number:
7E10.40
Demo Title:
Quark Models
Condition:
Good
Principle:
Model of Quarks
Area of Study:
Elementary Particles
Equipment:
Quark Models and Plexiglas Boxes.
Procedure:

Setup is as shown using the large Plexiglas boxes.

References:
  • Don Lincoln, "Quark/Gluon Plasma: When Protons Melt", TPT, Vol. 62, #7, Oct. 2024, p. 550.
  • Lachlan McGinness, Susanne Dührkoop, Julia Woithe, and Alexandra Jansky, "3D Printable Quark Puzzle: A Model to Build Your Own Particle Systems", TPT, Vol. 57, #8, Nov. 2019, p. 526.
  • Don Lincoln, "And So Ad Infinitum: The Search for Quark and Lepton Substructure", TPT, Vol. 56, #4, Apr. 2018, p. 204.
  • Gerfried J. Wiener, Sascha M. Schmeling, and Martin Hopf, "An Alternative Proposal for the Graphical Representation of Anticolor Charge", TPT, Vol. 55, #8, Nov. 2017, p. 472.
  • Jeff Whittaker, "Hands-On Nuclear Physics", TPT, Vol. 51, #3, Mar. 2013, p. 166.
  • Don Lincoln, "The Higgs Boson: Is the End in Sight?" TPT, Vol. 50, #6, Sept. 2012, p. 332.
  • Babak Makkinejad, "Quarks", TPT, Vol. 49, #3, Mar. 2011, p. 132.
  • Eric Gettrust, "The Quark Puzzle: A Novel Approach to Visualizing the Color Symmetries of Quarks", TPT, Vol. 48, #5, May 2010, p. 312.
  • Ashley G. Smart, "A Pentaquark Revival", Physics Today, Vol. 68, #9, Sept. 2015, p. 18.
  • Dmitri Denisov and Costas Vellidis, "The Top Quark, 20 Years After its Discovery", Physics Today, Vol. 68, #4, Apr. 2015, p. 46.
  • O. W. Greenberg, "The Origin of Quark Color", Physics Today, Vol. 68, #1, Jan. 2015, p. 33.
  • Stephan Lars Olsen, "Exotic Particles With Four or More Quarks", Physics Today, Vol. 67, #9, Sept. 2014, p. 56.
  • Bertram Schwarzschild, "The Ground State of Bottomonium has Finally Been Found", Physics Today, Vol. 61, #9, Sept. 2008, p. 14.
  • Phillip W. Phillips, "Free at Last: Bose Metal Uncaged", Vol. 366, #6472, Dec. 2019, p. 1450.
  • Adrian Cho, "New Pentaquarks Hint at Zoo of Exotic Matter", Science, Vol. 364, #6444, June 2019, p. 917.
  • "November 1974", APS News, Vol. 26, #10, November 2017, p. 2 & 3.
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