Fermilab Discovery Science Resources: Nine Questions
5. Why are there so many kinds of particles?
We have discovered three families of quarks and leptons, families of fundamental particles that differ only in their masses, which range from less than a millionth of the mass of an electron to the mass of an atom of gold. Just as quantum mechanics led to an understanding of the organization of the periodic table, we look to new theories to explain the patterns of elementary particles. Why do three families of particles exist, and why do their masses differ so dramatically? review.
Tevatron Experiments
Fermilab & the LHC
- Higgs Media Highlights
- Press Release on Discovery of Higgs-like Particle
- Fermilab Today's Article on Higgs announcement, July 4, 2012 and More Articles
- USLHC News
- DZero No Bump - Study of the dijet invariant mass distribution in ppbar-->W + jj final states - Joe Haley, DZero June 10, 2011
- The CDF "Bump" - Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs Produced in Association with a W boson in proton-antiproton Collision at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV - Viviana Cavaliere, CDF April 6, 2011