Elementary Particles and the Basic Forces of Nature
Class notes by Steve Bryson
Useful World Wide Web Sites:
www.fnal.gov/fermilab_home.html is the site of fermilab, the largest accelerator in the world, where the bottom and top quarks were discovered.
www.slac.stanford.edu/ is the site of the Stanford Linear Accelerator, where the quark structure of the proton, charmed quark and tau lepton were discovered.
www.cern.ch/ is the site of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Europe's big accelerator where the W and Z bosons were first observed. Incidentally, CERN is where the world wide web was invented.
www-pdg.lbl.gov/ is the home of the Particle Data Group, located in Berkeley, which compiles all the latest information on the properties of elementary particles. Be sure and check their "other interesting sites" link.
www-pdg.lbl.gov/cpep/adventure.html is a very nice educational site created by the Particle Data Group.
www.yahoo.com/Science/Physics/High_Energy_and_Particle_Physics is a general directory of web sites about particle physics.
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