-31 1 Electrons have a rest mass of 9.1095x103"kg(0.511 MeV/c2) and an energy of 0.511 MeV million electron volts)...
Two particles each have a rest mass energy of 30 MeV and are traveling with a total of 10 MeV of kinetic energy. When they collide, they fuse into a new particle with a rest mass energy of 50 MeV. How much kinetic energy does the final particle possess?
3. (10 pts) High energy particle accelerators convert part of the energy of colliding particles into the masses of particles produced in the collisions. Consider a collision of two protons that produces two charged kaons. The mass of the proton is mp- 938.3 MeV/c2, and the mass of each kaon is mK 493.7 MeV/c2. The reaction is a) The total energy (kinetic energy and rest energy) and total momentum is conserved. Suppose one of the protons is at rest in...
Particle Physics Let's do a little particle physics. Back in the '9os there was a large electron-positron collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, called the "Large electron-positron collider," or LEP for short. (This collider was broken down and rebuilt into an even larger one that runs to this day, called the "Large hadron collider" or LHC.) It was LEP that discovered the W and Z bosons, which mediate weak nuclear processes like the beta decay of free neutrons Anyway, near...