fundamental particle

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Physicists had learned that every fundamental particle seems to have an antimatter counterpart, an idea Segrè would later earn a Nobel Prize for verifying.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023

Physicists know that for every fundamental particle in nature there is an antiparticle — an evil twin of identical mass but endowed with equal and opposite characteristics like charge and spin.

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2023

So Pauli proposed what he described as a “desperate remedy”: a new type of small, chargeless fundamental particle that was emitted alongside the electrons and accounted for the missing energy.

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2022

The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass than scientists thought.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2022

They’re the lightest fundamental particle that we know about, with a mass just above zero.

From The Verge • Jul. 12, 2018