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Matter is made of what?

Probing the fundamental building blocks of matter


Subatomic Particles

Elementary Particles Composite Particles


(Hadrons)

Fermions Bosons Baryons Mesons


made of 3 Made of 1
quarks quark & 1
Photon anti-quark
6 Quarks
6 Leptons W ± & Z0
& Boson
& 6 Anti- Gluon
6 Anti- quarks
Graviton
leptons
Higgs
Boson
Antiparticle

In particle physics, every type of particle has an associated antiparticle with


the same mass but with opposite physical charges (such as electric charge).
For example, the antiparticle of the electron is the positron. While the
electron has a negative electric charge, the positron has a positive electric
charge.

Some particles, such as the photon, are their own antiparticle.

Particle–antiparticle pairs can annihilate each other, producing photons;


since the charges of the particle and antiparticle are opposite, total charge is
conserved.
Introduction of elementary particles ---- David Griffiths

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