Question on spin

2020-04-17 Thread Alan Grayson
What's the difference in behavior when a beam of spin 1 particles passes through a SG device, compared to spin 1/2 particles? TIA, AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails fr

Re: Question on spin

2020-04-18 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 2:56 AM Alan Grayson wrote: *> What's the difference in behavior when a beam of spin 1 particles passes > through a SG device, compared to spin 1/2 particles? TIA, AG* > A Stern–Gerlach device uses magnets to seperate out fermions like electrons into beams of spin +1/2 an

Re: Question on spin

2020-04-18 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
A W boson would be the only spin1 particle with a magnetic moment.  Since it has liftime of 3e-35 seconds I doubt anyone has sent W bosons thru an SG; but in theory they should act just like silver atoms or other particles with a magnetic moment. Brent On 4/17/2020 11:56 PM, Alan Grayson wrot

Re: Question on spin

2020-04-18 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 11:43:20 AM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > A W boson would be the only spin1 particle with a magnetic moment. Since > it has liftime of 3e-35 seconds I doubt anyone has sent W bosons thru an > SG; but in theory they should act just like silver atoms or other particles

Re: Question on spin

2020-04-18 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 4/18/2020 3:24 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 11:43:20 AM UTC-6, Brent wrote: A W boson would be the only spin1 particle with a magnetic moment. Since it has liftime of 3e-35 seconds I doubt anyone has sent W bosons thru an SG; but in theory they should