fundamental particle

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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

The muon is one of these fundamental particles; it's similar to the electron, but more than 200 times heavier.

From BBC

A potential chink in physicists’ understanding of fundamental particles and forces now looks more real.

From Science Magazine