What are bosons, hadrons, and fermions? I understand they are made up of quarks, electrons, neutrons, gluons, photons, etc. but how do they change into each other? How does a photon become an electron (I understand what I might be asking is how does the weak force work) but I’m not exactly sure?
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So you have 2 groups by spin, fermions and bosons. Bosons have an integer spin, and fermions have 1/2 integer spin. There’s a bunch of things that come out of that distinction.
Bosons contain lots of different particles that are hard to group, photons, gluons, W and Z bosons, the Higgs, and a couple others. In Quantum Field Theory, all “force carrying” particles are bosons, called gauge bosons.
Then you can find distinctions between different fermions. Leptons, like electrons, neutrinos, and others; and quarks, (up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom).
The quarks combine in two different ways, all of which are grouped into the category of hadrons
1. By 3 quarks, or a baryon
2. 1 quark and 1 anti-quark, or a meson
Hadrons make up protons, neutrons, and other heavy objects.
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