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Episode 534: Antiparticles and the Lepton Family
This learning episode, from the Institute of Physics, introduces the lepton family and also to brings in the idea of anti-particles, which annihilate when they meet particles.
The activities include:
* discussions about positrons, neutrinos and muons
* making PET scans
* examining particle tracks
* annihilation and pair production
* proton-antiproton annihilation
* the discovery of beta decay
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