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Here is an excerpt from my textbook: "The mass of a Z boson is about 90 Gev. By selecting the energy of the electron and positron beams in the LEP collider to be 45 Gev each, a high rate was achieved for the production of neutrino-antineutrino pairs in the process. The experiment shows that...

Thank you, I think i will have to wait until i can do a degree in physics to fully comprehend it all Is there any truth in what I was taught at school about the strong force being repulsive below 1.5fm? I think the reason our teachers gave us was that it was to prevent the nucleus collapsing...

What is the difference between the fundamental strong force and effective strong force?

Hi, I have been taught at school that the strong force is responsible for holding the nucleons together in the nucleus but becomes repulsive below about 1.5 femtometres. I now read that the strong force is also responsible for holding the quarks together inside the nucleons, although the...