Classification of particles
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The big divide

The big divide

Family tree of subatomic particles splitting into hadrons and leptons, with hadrons branching to baryons and mesons and examples proton, neutron, pion, kaon, electron, muon, and neutrinos

Physicists classify subatomic particles by asking one key question: does the particle feel the strong nuclear force? This splits the particle zoo into the two big families called hadrons and leptons.

Classification of particles Lesson

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