A couple of months back I wrote an article explaining intuitively why most types of particles decay. If you read that article you may be left wondering why a few types of particles, including the ones out of which we’re made, don’t decay. An answer to that question has now arrived, in the form of a new article:“Most Particles Decay – Yet Some Don’t!”. I hope you find it useful, and as always feel free to ask me to clarify points that don’t make sense to you.
Some Particles Decay, Some Particles Don’t
POSTED BY Matt Strassler
ON 10/12/2011
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A decay of a Higgs boson, as reconstructed by the CMS experiment at the LHC
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