The Standard Model of Elementary Particles

Horváth, D.

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The Standard Model of Elementary Particles

D. Horváth⁵

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The present experimental evidence seems to support the Standard Model of elementary particles, which interprets the world as consisting of 12 basic fermions: six quarks and six leptons with their antiparticles, 13 bosons mediating the strong, electromagnetic and weak interactions, and the mysterious Higgs boson. This chapter attempts to overview the basic features of the Standard Model with a minimal mathematical apparatus.

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This work was supported by the Hungarian National Science Foundation under contracts NK67974, NK81447 and K72172.

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KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Budapest, H-1525, Hungary
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Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, 32, Budapest, 1518, Hungary
Attila Vértes (Professor Emeritus) & Sándor Nagy (Professor) (Professor Emeritus) & (Professor)
Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pusztaszeri út 59-67, Budapest, 1025, Hungary
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Institute of Nuclear Research (ATOMKI), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 51, Debrecen, 4001, Hungary
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Institute of Nuclear Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Fritz-Strassmann-Weg 2, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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Horváth, D. (2011). The Standard Model of Elementary Particles. In: Vértes, A., Nagy, S., Klencsár, Z., Lovas, R.G., Rösch, F. (eds) Handbook of Nuclear Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0720-2_10

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