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Season 2 Trailer : Introducing Strangeness

Season 2 Trailer : Introducing Strangeness

FromThe Field Guide to Particle Physics


Season 2 Trailer : Introducing Strangeness

FromThe Field Guide to Particle Physics

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Length:
2 minutes
Released:
Jan 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The Field Guide to Particle Physics https://pasayten.org/the-field-guide-to-particle-physics©2021 The Pasayten Institute cc by-sa-4.0The definitive resource for all data in particle physics is the Particle Data Group: https://pdg.lbl.gov.The Pasayten Institute is on a mission to build and share physics knowledge, without barriers! Get in touch.On StrangenessAs promised, season two of a Field Guide to Particle Physics is just around the corner. This time we’ll focus on a family of particles that all have one thing in come: they are strange.You see, in particle physics, strangeness is a technical term. It arose in the 1950’s to explain a class of newly discovered particles that took far too long to decay to be normal. Perhaps for the lack of a better name, physicists called them strange.In this season we’ll explore the strange mesons and baryons - heavy versions of the pions and protons you’ve come to know - and learn how strange particle physics is both counts a new kind of quark and introduces all kinds of other trouble.Stay tuned in the coming days and weeks to learn about this collection of strange particles and the strange, physical ideas they present us.Ideas like:
 Neutral particle oscillations and regeneration
 Hyper nuclei
 Parity violation
 And the matter inside neutron stars
We’re so excited to share these stories you.
Released:
Jan 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (49)

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.