fundamental particle

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Supersymmetry dictates that all known particles would have their own “superpartners,” doubling the number of fundamental particles.

From Scientific American

A particle called the muon—a heavier, unstable cousin of the electron—is slightly more magnetic than physicists’ prevailing theory of fundamental particles and forces predicts.

From Science Magazine

Particle accelerators are workhorses in myriad fields of science, blasting out fundamental particles and generating intense beams of x-rays for studies of biomolecules and materials.

From Science Magazine

Taken at face value, the surprisingly strong magnetism of the elementary particles called muons, revealed by an experiment this month, suggests that the established theory of fundamental particles is incomplete.

From Scientific American

It is one of physics' great mysteries that some of the universe's fundamental particles would be so ill-equipped to survive in this universe.

From Salon