Charges
What is the charge of an electron?
-1
Force carrying particles
What are bosons?
This force is carried by the photon
What is the electromagnetic force?
Are atoms the smallest unit of matter
no
This particle has a spin of 0
What is the Higgs boson?
What is the charge of a proton?
1
The less massive sibling of the muon and tau
What is the electron?
This fundamental force is not included in the standard model
What is gravity?
How many generations of matter are there?
3
These particles combine to make a proton
What are up and down quarks?
What is the charge of the up, charm, and top quarks?
2/3
The most massive quark
What is the top quark?
This force is carried by the W and Z bosons
What is the weak nuclear force?
Particles that have half spin
What are fermions?
Do gluons have mass?
no
What is the charge of neutrinos?
0
Third generation lepton with -1 charge.
What is the tau?
This force keeps the nucleus of an atom held together
What is the strong nuclear force?
Charge of down, strange, and bottom quarks
-1/3
What is the main difference between matter particles and their antimatter counterparts?
Opposite charge
A positron is an antielectron, what is its charge?
1
Second generation quark with 2/3 charge
What is a charm quark?
This force keeps electrons orbiting the nucleus
What is the electromagnetic force?
How many fundamental forces are included in the standard model?
3
This particle gives mass to other particles
What is the Higgs boson?