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I apologize if this has been already asked , but I'm curious about how scientists first found out that such particles exist? Since they are equal in all other aspects except for charge ,
well my best guess would be that in the large hadron collidor and other particle accelerators they have mass spectrometers or I should call them nuclear spectroscopy or something along those lines and when they did the experiments and run the colliders most of the say protons for example were bent one way in the amgnetic field but some were bent the other way but had the same mass and other characteristics so they concluded that those are particles equal in everything except their charge ?
is it tru that you can only tell the difference between say an electron and positron by it's opposite bending in a magnetic field ?
well my best guess would be that in the large hadron collidor and other particle accelerators they have mass spectrometers or I should call them nuclear spectroscopy or something along those lines and when they did the experiments and run the colliders most of the say protons for example were bent one way in the amgnetic field but some were bent the other way but had the same mass and other characteristics so they concluded that those are particles equal in everything except their charge ?
is it tru that you can only tell the difference between say an electron and positron by it's opposite bending in a magnetic field ?