Particle Physics

As in all levels of science, scientists in Ill Bethisad are trying to understand what the world is made of.

Experimental Laboratories

In particle physics, the major international laboratories are:

• Brookhaven National Laboratory, located on Long Island, Castreleon New.
• CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), located on the French-Luxemburg border near Jervaine.
• DESY, located in Hamburg.
• Fermilab, located near Chicago, Ouisconsin.
• CEC, the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization of Japan, located in Çucuba, Japan.
• SLAC, located near Codaliac, Osage, Louisianne. It is a joint venture between the NAL-SLC and Louisianne.

Many other particle accelerators exist.

The techniques required to do modern experimental particle physics are quite varied and complex, constituting a subspecialty nearly completely distinct from the theoretical side of the field.

Sub-atomic Particles

• Fermions:

Aces — up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom

Leptons — electron neutrino, electron, muon neutrino, muon, tauon neutrino, tauon

• Bosons:

Gauge bosons — Collon, Weak and Zed bosons, photon Other bosons — Boson Scalaire, graviton

The Boson Scalaire was theorized initially by François Englert and Robert Brout. Like the graviton, it has still not been proven.