The Standard Model
Knowledge you need to have:
Knowledge that the Standard Model is a model of fundamental particles and interactions.
Knowledge that evidence for the existence of quarks comes from high-energy collisions between electrons and nucleons, carried out in particle accelerators
Knowledge that in the Standard Model, every particle has an antiparticle and that the production of energy in the annihilation of particles is evidence for the existence of antimatter.
Knowledge that fermions, the matter particles, consist of quarks (six types: up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom) and leptons (electron, muon and tau, together with their neutrinos).
Knowledge that hadrons are composite particles made of quarks.
Knowledge that baryons are made of three quarks.
Knowledge that mesons are made of quark–antiquark pairs.
Knowledge that the force-mediating particles are bosons: photons (electromagnetic force), W- and Z-bosons (weak force), and gluons (strong force).
Skills you need to develop:
Description of beta decay as the first evidence for the neutrino.
