In particle physics, an elementary particle or fundamental particle is a subatomic particle that is not composed of other particles. The Standard Model...

hypothesized microscopic particles in particle physics, condensed matter physics and cosmology. Elementary particles are particles with no measurable internal...

The Elementary Particles may refer to: Elementary particle, concept in particle physics Atomised, novel by Michel Houellebecq Atomised (film), German...

electrons. By contrast, elementary particles (also called fundamental particles) refer to particles that are not made of other particles. According to our current...

quarks), or an elementary particle, which is not composed of other particles (for example, quarks; or electrons, muons, and tau particles, which are called...

A point particle, ideal particle or point-like particle (often spelled pointlike particle) is an idealization of particles heavily used in physics. Its...

constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies combinations of elementary particles up to the scale of protons and neutrons, while the study of combinations...

bosons or more generally as the intermediate vector bosons. These elementary particles mediate the weak interaction; the respective symbols are W+ , W−...

Nath Bose, an Indian physicist. Some bosons are elementary particles occupying a special role in particle physics, distinct from the role of fermions (which...

The tau (τ), also called the tau lepton, tau particle or tauon, is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with negative electric charge and a...

interactions – excluding gravity) in the universe and classifying all known elementary particles. It was developed in stages throughout the latter half of the 20th...

Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation...

Introduction to Elementary Particles, by David Griffiths, is a textbook on particle physics aimed at advanced undergraduate physics students. It was originally...

In particle physics, a massless particle is an elementary particle whose invariant mass is zero. At present the only confirmed massless particle is the...

In particle physics, a gauge boson is a bosonic elementary particle that acts as the force carrier for elementary fermions. Elementary particles whose...

In physics, a charged particle is a particle with an electric charge. For example, some elementary particles, like the electron or quarks are charged....

page reference work which summarizes particle properties and reviews the current status of elementary particle physics, general relativity and Big Bang...

(/njuːˈtriːnoʊ/ new-TREE-noh; denoted by the Greek letter ν) is an elementary particle that interacts via the weak interaction and gravity. The neutrino...

photon (from Ancient Greek φῶς, φωτός (phôs, phōtós) 'light') is an elementary particle that is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic...

an intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles, and thus by composite particles such as hadrons, atomic nuclei, and atoms.: 183–184 ...

An axion (/ˈæksiɒn/) is a hypothetical elementary particle originally theorized in 1978 independently by Frank Wilczek and Steven Weinberg as the Goldstone...

charge quantization, since quasiparticles are not elementary particles. All known elementary particles, including quarks, have charges that are integer...

M(Y)OO-on; from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with an electric charge of −1 e and a spin...

In particle physics, flavour or flavor refers to the species of an elementary particle. The Standard Model counts six flavours of quarks and six flavours...

In particle physics a Majorana fermion (/maɪəˈrɑːnə/) or Majorana particle is a fermion that is its own antiparticle. They were hypothesised by Ettore...

a list of hypothetical subatomic particles in physics. Some theories predict the existence of additional elementary bosons and fermions that are not found...

kwɑːrk/ ) is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most...

interacting particles (hadrons) were known and believed to be distinct elementary particles. It was later discovered that they were not elementary particles, but...

phenomenally large for a single elementary particle – far outstripping the highest energy that human technology can generate in a particle – it is still far below...

Bose–Einstein statistics. Some fermions are elementary particles (such as electrons), and some are composite particles (such as protons). For example, according...