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Best elementary particle?

Explore and vote for the most fascinating elementary particle based on its properties, significance in physics, and impact on our understanding of the universe.

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MauricioGomez

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Electron

Smallest massive stable particle, lepton, negatively charged, spin 1/2, first elementary particle discovered, named after amber.

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Electron neutrino

Mass unknown (very small), can transform into other neutrinos, first generation, spin 1/2, only left-chirality, named after small neutron and the electron that accompanies it in beta decay.

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Higgs boson

Massive, scalar boson, spin 0, last elementary particle to be discovered, unstable, chargeless, name refers to Peter Higgs who first proposed it, it is the excitation of the Higgs field that gives mass to other elementary particles.

MauricioGomez

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Z boson

Massive particle, decays, chargeless, vector boson, spin 1, force carrier of weak force, SU(2) symmetry group, named after "zero" charge.

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Top

Most massive elementary particle, quark, third generation, positively charged, possibly observable in isolation, originally named truth, renamed top to compare with its counterpart the up quark.

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