User blog:Plasmath/Elementary Particles

The elementary particles are the 29 kinds of particles which contain strings. They appear prominently in quantum/particle physics, and a large amount of verses are made from them. One particle, the photon, also contains 2 Blueprint Particles. They are split into 3 categories: the quarks, the leptons, and the bosons.

List of elementary particles
The following is a list of elementary particles, as follows:

Quarks
Quarks are important particles that compose protons and neutrons. There are six types: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom, all with corresponding antiparticles. In protons and neutrons, every particle has a corresponding antiparticle except for 3 up and down quarks (2 up quarks and 1 down quark for protons, 2 down quarks and 1 up quark for neutrons). Other combinations of quarks are called hadrons.


 * Up quark
 * Down quark
 * Up antiquark
 * Down antiquark
 * Charm quark
 * Strange quark
 * Charm antiquark
 * Strange antiquark
 * Top quark
 * Bottom quark
 * Top antiquark
 * Bottom antiquark

Leptons
Leptons are important particles that include the electron, as well as some other particles. There are six types as well: the electron, the electron neutrino, the muon, the muon neutrino, the tau, and the tau neutrino. They also all have antiparticles, with the antielectron having a special name; the positron.


 * Electron
 * Positron
 * Electron neutrino
 * Electron antineutrino
 * Muon
 * Antimuon
 * Muon neutrino
 * Muon antineutrino
 * Tau
 * Antitau
 * Tau neutrino
 * Tau antineutrino

Bosons
The bosons are particles that control various important forces. There are two categories: the four gauge bosons, and the singular scalar boson. The photon carries the electromagnetic force, the W and Z bosons control the weak nuclear force, the gluon carries the strong nuclear force, and the Higgs boson controls the mass of various other particles.

Gauge bosons

 * Photon
 * W boson
 * Z boson
 * Gluon

Scalar bosons

 * Higgs boson