How many fundamental particles does the Standard Model contain?

Answer 1

There are sixteen fundamental particles in the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

These are the quarks that make up the model: quarks, leptons, and gauge bosons; five generations of matter; each column represents a generation of matter; the Higgs Boson has its own generation of matter; the odd quark, charm quark, electron, muon, and tau; the electron neutrino, the muon neutrino, and the tau neutrino; the W and Z bosons; gamma photons, and gluons.

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Answer 2

Charlotte Aaron

The Standard Model contains 17 fundamental particles.

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When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.