This is your informal guide to the subatomic ecosystem we’re all immersed in. In this series, we explore the taxa of particle species and how they interact with one another. Our aim is give us all a better foundation for understanding our place in the universe. The guide starts with a host of different particle species. We’ll talk about their masses, charges and interactions with other particles. We’ll talk about how they are created, how they decay, and what other particles they might be made of.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 hours 1 minute
The Impact of Particle Physics on the Moon
Planetary scientist Jean-Philippe Combe joints us to discuss the how cosmic rays and particles from the solar wind impact and affect the surface of the moon.
Cosmic Rays : Part 4 : Paleoclimatology and Muons
When ice forms it traps air molecules with it. Ancient ice, trapped deep in glaciers near the Earth's poles can give us a record of what the atmosphere was like thousands - if not millions - of years ago. But only if we can calibrate the relationship betw
Cosmic Rays : Part 3 : Cosmogenic Muons and Special Relativity
Muons are all around us. Virtually all of them are the debris associated to collisions of cosmic rays from the upper atmosphere. We discuss why muons are present, and how their presence is a direct validation of Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity.
Cosmic Rays : Part 2 : Plasma Physics
To explain the origin of cosmic rays, we discuss how out-of-equilibrium plasma physics can boost ions to extremely high velocities.
Cosmic Rays : Part 1 : Particles from Space
The Cosmic Ray mini-series begins with the OH MY GOD! Particle.
episode 9: The Omega Baryon
The Omega Baryon is the strangest particle we have encountered so far. It may also be the strangest particle known to Science, literally.
episode 8: The Cascades
Prepare for trouble! And make it double! Today we confront the two Cascade or Xi /ksee/ baryons which each have a PAIR of strange quarks.
episode 7: The Neutral Sigma Baryon
The Field Guide to Particle Physics : Season 2
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episode 6: The Charged Sigma Baryons
The Sigma Baryons - that’s a capital Sigma - are a trio of slightly heavy cousins to everyday particles like the proton and the neutron. With masses of almost 1200 MeV each, it may surprise you that the physics of Sigma baryons feels much closer to a comp