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Particle Physics

The fundamental building blocks of the universe — quarks, leptons, bosons, the Higgs field, and the Standard Model that describes them all.

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Particle physics studies the smallest constituents of matter and the forces that govern them. The Standard Model — humanity's most precise scientific theory — describes 17 fundamental particles: 6 quarks, 6 leptons, 4 force carriers, and the Higgs boson. Together they explain nearly all observed phenomena in the universe.

These simulations explore the subatomic world. Visualize the zoo of fundamental particles and their properties, understand how the Higgs field gives mass to particles through symmetry breaking, see quarks confined by the strong force, simulate particle collisions like those at the Large Hadron Collider, and watch pair production create matter from pure energy.

5 interactive simulations

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Higgs Field & Symmetry Breaking

Visualize the Mexican hat potential and watch symmetry breaking as the Higgs field acquires a vacuum expectation value, giving mass to fundamental particles.

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Pair Production & Annihilation

Watch matter emerge from pure energy. A high-energy photon near a nucleus creates an electron-positron pair, demonstrating E=mc² in action.

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Particle Collision Event Display

Simulate particle collisions like those at the Large Hadron Collider. Watch tracks radiate from the collision point, curved by magnetic fields, with energy deposits in calorimeters.

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Quark Confinement & Color Force

Visualize quark confinement and the color force. Pull quarks apart and watch the gluon flux tube stretch until it snaps, creating new quark-antiquark pairs.

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Standard Model Particle Zoo

Interactive visualization of all 17 fundamental particles in the Standard Model — quarks, leptons, gauge bosons, and the Higgs boson — with their masses, charges, and spins.