Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of Graph Search.
Lecture
Are you an EPFL student looking for a semester project?
Work with us on data science and visualisation projects, and deploy your project as an app on top of Graph Search.
This lecture covers the concepts of antiquarks, mesons, isospin doublets, and ladder operators in the context of quarks and mesons. It delves into the construction of meson states from up/down quarks, the orthogonality of meson states, and the representation of mesons in terms of isospin. The lecture also explores the extension of these ideas to include the strange quark, the formation of SU(3) flavor matrices, and the symmetry properties of quark states under different flavor combinations. Additionally, it discusses the combination of uds quarks to form baryons, the multiplet structures of baryons, and the implications of SU(3) flavor symmetry in explaining the observed multiplet structures for mesons and baryons.