Power Point Feynman Diagram Tool Kit

Scott GoelzerCERN HST Program

2002

Contents

• Title

• Contents

• Instructions

• Templates

• Examples

You should NOT

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Power Point editor

Before you start...

• You should not alter this file. It is your template for other work.

• Save a copy <save as…>

• Then open your new copy and use it to work.

• Oddly, you will be using this file to compose diagrams, not present them.

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Making Diagrams

• In the following slides you will find some parts of Feynman diagrams that you can rearrange to make your own.

• Remember, Power Point is a drawing program not a painting program. Each element is an object layered on the screen.

What to do...

• The idea will be to take the pre-made objects and arrange them in a diagram

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How to do it...

• When you are at the tools page, select <Duplicate Slide> from the <Insert> menu

• Simply grab the objects and drag them into place.

• Duplicate objects with <Cmd-D>, flip objects with the <Draw Menu>

• Arrow keys can move a selected object with greater precision. Alt and Control Key can increase precision.

Hints

• Select two or more objects and choose <Group> from the <Drawing> menus. This will allow these objects to be treated as one. This is good when pasting into word.

• Need a particle I did not provide? Use MS Equation Editor by double clicking on a previously made particle and then editing. Closing the Eqn. Editor will update P.Point.

After you finish...

• If you do not care for the colors, double click on an object and change the color. If you select more than one object, you may change all objects simultaneously.

• To save an image to disk just <Save As> a GIF file. Then you can make it a transparent GIF in a graphics file.

Your tool kit:Real Particles

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