Keeping Track of Your Subatomic Particles

Mike Siekkinen writes "For those that have ever wondered how many different subatomic particles are currently classified, here is your answer. It provides a well organized Flash chart of fundamental particles and interactions, as well as printable JPEGs and PDFs. Now you can keep your fermions and your bosons straight. The site also has another chart depicting the history of the universe, highlighting the evolution of the subatomic world."

Comments

Invert the colors

[ballpoint]

before printing the images on an inkjet or color laser printer with gimp or Photoshop. You can also experiment with the Hue value to tune the colors to your liking.

If you intend to have this rendered on photo paper using an on-line printing service the black background makes for a nice poster though.

A bigger list

[helix400]

Here's a bigger list. This just shows how some of these fundamental particles can combine to make other subatomic particles. I'm still looking for a full, complete list. When you go to this site that the slashdot article mentions, and you click on "Mesons", it'll say "there are about 140 types of mesons". Dangit! I want a list of those!...Baryons too =)

http://members.aol.com/cclinker/subatom.htm

Unfortunately, its text based, so you don't get to see the symbols and pictures and what not...but hey, its a bigger list!

Only a small list.

[Mt._Honkey]

This is not nearly the complete list of particles. The complete list of known and predicted particles is organized by the Particle Data Group at LBL. You can see the listings in PDF or PS formats. You can also order a FREE (as in both speech and beer) hard copy of the listings, just published this summer. It is about the size of 2 phone books, but they also have a free pocket version.