Participle physics: Basics
- Elementary Particle: An elementary particle is a particle that is not made up of any smaller particles. All the other particles and matter in the universe are made up of elementary particles.
- There are two main categories of elementary particles: fermions (matter particles) and bosons (force-carrying particles).
- Fermions: Fermions are the matter particles. All matter is made up fermions. Fermions are divided into two types of particles: quarks and leptons.
- Quarks: Quarks are the basic building blocks for protons and neutrons. There are six types of quarks namely: up, down, charm, strange, top, and
Bottom Quarks:
- The bottom quark or b quark, also known as the beauty quark.
- It has exceptionally low rates of transition to lower-mass quarks.
- It is a product in almost all top quark decays, and is a frequent decay product of the Higgs boson.
