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Experimentally, particle physics is more or less known to about 18 GeV, the present limit on the mass of the top quark. Theoretically everything seems well described by the standard model of strong, e.m. and weak interactions [l].

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Veltman, M. (1981). Thresholds in Particle Physics. In: Leveille, J.P., Sulak, L.R., Unger, D.G. (eds) The Second Workshop on Grand Unification. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5990-9_15

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