Elementary Particles

This repository contains Blender files with representation of Standard Model elementary particles.

Using the Particles

The use of these animations is free and not subject to copyright. Please cite the original work (https://youtu.be/ZXSdU6KqpJo) when using these animations.

If you want to use these animations, but don't want to use blender, here is a drive directory with all the animations.

Logaritmic Mass Dependence

The files particles-sorted-logscale.blend and Particles_log_scales.blend contains particles with diameters defined as

$d_i = log(\frac{m_i}{0.5 m_e})$ [m],

where $d_i$ and $m_i$ are the diameter and mass of the i-th particle. To reconstruct the mass of i-th particle one can do a simple computation:

$m_i = 0.5 m_e 10^{d_i}$ [GeV].

Linear Mass Dependence

Since there are around 5 orders of magnitude from electron mass to top mass, we cannot put the linear dependence alltogether in one Blender file, otherwise it craches. We split the linear dependence of particle masses in 3 files:

The file B_Electron--Bottom-linscale.blend contains particles from electron to muon with diameter defined as $d_i = 0.031 \frac{m_i}{m_e} , [m]$

The files A_Gluon--Up-linscale.blend and C_Bottom--Top-linscale.blend contain the same particles, rescaled. This allows the render of particles in linear scale.