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Hi. I am working to create some materials for 20th century physics &
particle physics. Before I do, I need to understand some of it.
When
particles collide inside cern / fermi / slac, and produce particles,
do the particles form from the energy of the collision?
From the energy, among other things. In particular, if the productshave more mass than the reactants, the extra mass must have come from
Do the
particles form because the quarks rearrange?
When massive particles
decay to daughter particles, are the daughter particles composed of
fewer fundamental particles?
Now, I believe a particle can be made from energy for to particle
interaction (photon vs photon). So I thought an interaction in a
detector would produce particles at least (!) partly due to the
energy of the interaction, not just rearranging particles like
quarks. I believe muons are fundamental, and decay (perhaps there is
a better term) into particles. Would the particles a myob decays into
be considered daughter particles?
One more... Is the higgs boson fundamental?