Illustrations

The idea of this page is to explore the possibility of having an illustrated essay. This would include images, text, maths and possibly code. So this sort of grid could include all the particles of the standard model apart from the Higgs.

The Standard Model of physics is often laid out as a simple grid - a sort of periodic table of fundamental particles. This doesn't capture any of the real relationships between the particles and there are now much better illustrative ways of setting it out. However, it is still useful in some ways. For example for giving the basic properties of each particle.

The first illustration shows the Quark section of the grid. This was done using the Luxor drawing package. An advantage of this method is that there is lots of scope for drawing. A disadvantage is that the drawing cannot include LaTex which is to be rendered by MathJax.

Electron
Mass: 1
Charge: -1
Spin: 1/2

Muon
Mass: 207
Charge: -1
Spin: 1/2

Tau
Mass: 3,483
Charge: -1
Spin: 1/2

The illustration is produced by the julia code in 'Leptons.jl'. The code outputs html which is then manually pasted into this page. Some formatting is done using classes defined here in this file. Some other formatting is done in the Julia code.

$\bar{\nu}_e$
Mass: 1.0e-6
Charge: 0
Spin: 1/2

$\bar{\nu}_{\mu}$
Mass: 1.0e-6
Charge: 0
Spin: 1/2

$\bar{\nu}_{\tau}$
Mass: 1.0e-6
Charge: 0
Spin: 1/2

Anti-neutrinos. This section displays the use of the LatexStrings package in the Neutrinos.jl code. It enables the latex to be entered into the code in a very simple way and for the output to be usable by MathJax. This allows the use of the symbols for the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino and the tao neutrino to be displayed. (In this example, it is the anti-neutrinos that are symbolised.)