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In the so-called standard model of particle physics one attempts to describe all physical phenomena in terms of the properties and interactions of a (small) number of different particles which are assumed to be elementary in the sense that they are treated as point particles without internal structure (excited states). The leptons (electron, muon, tauon, and the associated three neutrino’s), quarks (six types) and their antiparticles all are spin-1 ∕ 2 fermions. The carriers of the interactions between these spin-1/2 particles, the gauge bosons (W ± and Z 0 bosons, gluons, and the photons), are spin-1 bosons. Among these elementary point-particles the electron and the photon are the ones of relevance in quantum electrodynamics.
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Keller, O. (2011). One-Particle Position Operators and Spatial Localization. In: Quantum Theory of Near-Field Electrodynamics. Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17410-0_21
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