Table 1. Types of elementary particles, particles-carriers of interaction, and interaction.
Fermions | Particles of spacetime |
Quarks | Up, charm, top |
(form protons and neutrons) | Down, strange, bottom |
Leptons | Electron, muon, tau |
Electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino | |
Bosons | Interaction/force carriers (messenger particles) |
Gluon – strong nuclear force-carrier | |
Photon – electromagnetic force-carrier | |
Z boson – weak nuclear force-carrier | |
W boson – weak nuclear force-carrier | |
Higgs boson - responsible for the emergence of mass |