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Asked by anon-244375 to Ondrej, Jordan, Eleanor, Ed, Christine, Alice on 10 Mar 2020. This question was also asked by anon-245054, anon-245260.
Question: what is your favourite particle
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Eleanor Jones answered on 10 Mar 2020:
My favourite particle is the Higgs boson! It’s the one I study in my work and I just find it fascinating. It was the last particle that completed our theory to be discovered and there is still a lot about it that we need to test in order to confirm our predictions. So, in my opinion, the Higgs boson is still the most mysterious particle!
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Edward Banks answered on 10 Mar 2020:
I like the gluon- mainly for the name! It works as the ‘glue’ that holds nuclei together, so it got called the gluon! It works by mediating the strong nuclear force, which is strong enough to overcome the repulsion between all the positively charged protons within a nucleus.
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Jordan McElwee answered on 10 Mar 2020:
It has got to be the neutrino. They’re just so bizarre! There are 3 types: electron neutrino, muon neutrino and tau neutrino. But they do something called ‘Oscillation’ where one type can become another. This would be the same as throwing an apple into the air but when you catch it, it has become an orange… how strange is that!
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Ondrej Kovanda answered on 10 Mar 2020:
My favourite is the B meson. It decays in some very strange ways, which are extremely rare – the process I’m looking at happens approximately once per 10 000 000 000 B meson decays.
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anon-245271 commented on :
What’s the smallest particle
Jordan commented on :
As far as we know, the smallest is the neutrino (if we ignore photons, which are particles of light). They are more than 250,000 times smaller than the next smallest, which is the electron!