Build Your Own Particle

Build a Particle: Quark and Baryon Display

Ever wondered what our universe is made of? Start here. 

Uncover some of the fundamental building blocks of reality with this quark and baryon model! Explore the universes tiniest components – Quarks – and assemble them within a sleek baryon shell to create your very own particle display.
 

• Discover Fundamental Physics: Dive into Protons, Neutrons, and their building blocks.

   

• Design Your Own Particle: Mix and match Quarks to construct various baryons, showcasing their unique combinations and properties.

   

• Hands-On Learning: Perfect for students, educators and science enthusiasts looking to understand particle physics in and tactile and visual way.

   

• Display Your Particle Creations: Highlight your assembled particles using the display stand — Perfect for the classroom, desk or science fair.

Weather you're a curious learner, an educator, or a fan of physics, this model brings the wonders of the quantum world to life. Easy to assemble and endlessly fascinating, it's the perfect blend of education and art. Start building, displaying and creating — one particle at a time.

What is The Standard Model?

The Standard Model is physics best working theory describing the universe. It explains the fundamental particles and forces (excluding gravitational “forces”) that make up OUR Universe.

This Model Specifically Looks at Quarks. But what is a Quark? 

Quarks are a sub-category of elementary particles, meaning they cannot be broken down into smaller particles. There are 6 Flavours (Types) of Quarks: Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top and Bottom. Quarks have defined properties such as charge, mass, spin, colour charge. Quarks are bound together in groups to create larger particles, like a Proton or Neutron.

Hadrons

Protons and Neutrons are part of a category of particles within the standard model know as Hadrons. Hadrons are defined as, particles made up of Quarks bound together by the strong nuclear force.

Hadrons are further categorized into two groups.

Baryons – Made of three quarks. (e.g. Protons and Neutrons)

Mesons – Made of one Quark and one Anti-Quark.the the

Hadrons are held together by gluons, the force carriers of the strong force.

Gluons 

Gluons are massless elementary particles that act as mediators of the strong nuclear force, which bind Quarks together inside hadrons. They are represented by the squiggly white line between the Quarks within the baryon in this model.