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ARTICLES RELATED TO Particle physics - History of particle physics | | | |  Particle physics - History of particle physics: Encyclopedia II - Particle physics - History of particle physicsThe idea that matter is composed of elementary particles dates to at least the 6th century BC. The philosophical doctrine of "atomism" was studied by ancient Greek philosophers such as Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus. Although Isaac Newton in the 17th century thought that matter was made up of particles, it was John Dalton who formally stated in 1802 that everything is made from tiny atoms.
Dmitri Mendeleev's first periodic table in 1869 helped cement the view, prevalent throughout the 19th century, that matter was made of atoms. ...
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| | | | Particle physics - History of particle physics: Encyclopedia II - Particle physics - Subatomic particles Modern particle physics research is focused on subatomic particles, which have less structure than atoms. These include atomic constituents such as electrons, protons, and neutrons (protons and neutrons are actually composite particles, made up of quarks), particles produced by radiative and scattering processes, such as photons, neutrinos, and muons, as well as a wide range of exotic particles.
Strictly speaking, the term particle is something of a misnomer. The objects studied by particle physics obey the principles of quantu ...
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| | | | Particle physics - History of particle physics: Encyclopedia II - Particle physics - The future of particle physics Particle physicists internationally agree on the most important goals of particle physics research in the near and intermediate future. The overarching goal, which is pursued in several distinct ways, is to find and understand what physics may lie beyond the standard model. There are several powerful experimental reasons to expect new physics, including dark matter and neutrino mass. There are also theoretical hints that this new physics should be found at accessible energy scales. Most importantly, though, there may be unexpected and unpredicted surpr ...
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| | | | Particle physics - History of particle physics: Encyclopedia II - Particle physics - Public policy and particle physics Experimental results in particle physics are often obtained using enormous particle accelerators which are very expensive (typically several billion US dollars) and require large amounts of government funding. Because of this, particle physics research involves issues of public policy.
Many have argued that the potential advances do not justify the money spent, and that in fact particle physics takes money away from more important research and education efforts. In 1993, the US Congress stopped the Superconducting Super Collider becau ...
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| | | | Particle physics - History of particle physics: Encyclopedia II - Particle physics - Theoretical particle physics Theoretical particle physics attempts to develop the models, theoretical framework, and mathematical tools to understand current experiments and make predictions for future experiments. See also theoretical physics. There are several major efforts in theoretical particle physics today and each includes a range of different activities. The efforts in each area are interrelated.
One of the major activities in theoretical particle physics is the attempt to better understand the standard model and its tests. By extracting the param ...
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| | | | Particle physics - History of particle physics: Encyclopedia II - Particle physics - Experimental particle physics In particle physics, the major international collaborations are:
Brookhaven National Laboratory, located on Long Island, USA. Its main facility is the Relativistic Heavy Ion Colliderwhich collides heavy ions such as gold ions (it is the first heavy ion collider) and protons.
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk, Russia)
CERN, located on the French-Swiss border near Geneva. Its main project is now LHC, or the Large Hadron Collider, which is currently under construction. The LHC ...
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| | | | Particle physics - History of particle physics: Encyclopedia II - Particle physics - Particle physics and reductionism Throughout the development of particle physics, there have been many objections to the extreme reductionist (or greedy reductionist) approach of attempting to explain everything in terms of elementary particles and their interaction. These objections have been raised by people from a wide array of fields, including many modern particle physicists, solid state physicists, chemists, biologists, and metaphysical holists. While the Standard Model itself is not challenged, it is contended that the properties of elementary particles ...
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