Particles
Quarks, leptons and the standard model: the building blocks of matter
In the beginning...
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Lessons
Protons, neutrons and electrons
Practice: Identify the particle
Quarks
Practice: Build a particle from quarks
Six flavours of quark
Leptons
Practice: Order by mass
Forces and their carriers
Practice: Match force to carrier
The weak force changes quarks
The Standard Model
Practice: Sort the particles
Antimatter
Annihilation and pair production
Practice: Annihilation energy
Baryons and mesons
Practice: Charge of a hadron
The Higgs boson
Particle accelerators
Particle detectors
Practice: Where does it stop?
Practice: Test yourself
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The building blocks of matter
Zoom in from atoms to quarks. Explore the standard model, antimatter, the Higgs boson, and what holds the universe together at the smallest scale.
