A track in a bubble chamber is identified as belonging to a particle with total…

PHYSICS · Subjective · Fermi University Physics · Relativity & Gravitation · Relativistic dynamics and fields in flat spacetime · Relativistic dynamics and fields in flat spacetime

Particle Physics, Ch Scales, units and the four-momentum

Problem

A track in a bubble chamber is identified as belonging to a particle with total energy

E = 500\,\mathrm{MeV}

and momentum magnitude

|\mathbf p|c = 300\,\mathrm{MeV}

. (a) Find the particle's rest mass

m

. (b) Find

\beta

. (c) Find

\gamma

, and check it against the value obtained from

\beta

. (d) Find the kinetic energy

T

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