Tau Particle Decay In Aleph Detector
by Cern/science Photo Library
Title
Tau Particle Decay In Aleph Detector
Artist
Cern/science Photo Library
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Production and decay of tau leptons. Electronic display of an electron-positron collision in the ALEPH detector at CERN, the particle physics lab near Geneva. The display shows a cross-section of the detector, with the beam tube in the centre (blue) surrounded by detector components (blue & red). The electron & positron, accelerated to high energy in CERN's LEP collider, annihilate at centre to create a Z particle which decays into a tau-plus & a tau-minus. The Z & the taus live too briefly to be seen, but the taus are revealed by their typical '3+3' decay into two back-to-back sets of three pions (coloured tracks). The tau is a lepton, a heavy version of the electron & muon.
Uploaded
September 13th, 2018
Embed
Share
Similar Images
Comments
There are no comments for Tau Particle Decay In Aleph Detector. Click here to post the first comment.
Recently Viewed
