2nd/3rd generation atoms?

[andrewcellini]

Is it possible within the standard model for, say, top and bottom quarks and tauons to act in ways analogous to atoms?

 

EDIT: obviously by the title i didn't know how to ask this question. it may very well be a stupid question.

Edited July 19, 2014 by andrewcellini

[Sensei]

There is known a couple exotic atoms existing for a short time.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_atom

 

Positron coupling with electron:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium

 

Muon- orbiting around nucleus/proton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muonium

 

Antiproton orbiting around Helium-4 nucleus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprotonic_helium

[Mordred]

the main difference between the generations of elementary particles is their mass, particles are identified by the flavour, quantum number, and mass. However between generations their interactions are identical.

there is two leptons and 2 quarks in each generation.

each member if a higher generations has a greater mass than its corresponding particle of the previous generation.

 

the above information can be found here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_%28particle_physics%29

 

the lightest generation is the most stable of the particles any higher generation decays into the lower generation

http://sciencepark.etacude.com/particle/classification.php

 

the 6 flavors corresponds to 3 generations, quarks and antiquarks have charges of 1/3 down quark and 2/3 upquark where the leptons are 1 and 0.

 

how the flavours interact is determined by the conservation of flavour

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavour_%28particle_physics%29

 

here is the various conservation laws involved

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_charge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_conservation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor_%28particle_physics%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepton_number

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_isospin

 

those are the ones I recall being involved I may have missed some though lol

 

for example Conservation of color

 

"All three colors mixed together, or any one of these colors and its complement (or negative), is "colorless" or "white". This is how the color charge on particles behaves. A combination of three particles, one with red charge, another with green charge, and another blue charge, has a net color charge of zero ("colorless"):

 

 

David Griffiths "Introductory to particle physics" has an excellent coverage but its been a bit since I last read it so may have missed some details. (doesn't require as high a level of previous knowledge as some other particle physics books I've read)

Edited July 19, 2014 by Mordred

[andrewcellini]

thanks a bunch, will definitely check out those links and that david griffiths book.

Edited July 19, 2014 by andrewcellini

[swansont]

Is it possible within the standard model for, say, top and bottom quarks and tauons to act in ways analogous to atoms?

 

EDIT: obviously by the title i didn't know how to ask this question. it may very well be a stupid question.

 

I don't think anyone has seen any composite systems made of later-generation particles. It's hard enough making single ones, and they decay really quickly (in a free state, at least)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_baryons