Particle Trappin' - Join the Team
| Welcome to our experimental team. We want to measure the mass of the Z particle. Zs don't live long so we can't trap them, but we can trap the particles they decay into. If we measure the energies of the particle children of the Z, we can calculate its mass. Check out the animation of some, but not all of the ways the Z decays into its particle children. |  |
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Did you notice two particle children are the electron (e) and the pion (  )?
Your job is to help build the "Particle Shed" below to trap
electrons and pions and to measure their energy. We will be getting the Zs from a Z factory.How can you trap particles? | |
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