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What counts as fundamental?

What counts as fundamental?

Classification chart showing hadrons and leptons, antiparticle pairs, quark charges, and the quark content of proton and neutron In this topic, quarks and leptons are treated as fundamental particles because they are not made from smaller parts in the model. Protons and neutrons are still important, but they are hadrons built from quarks.

Fundamental particles Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Physics
  3. /Fundamental particles