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Entries on particle physics

matter field fermions (spinors, Dirac fields)

flavors of fundamental fermions in the standard model of particle physics:
generation of fermions	1st generation	2nd generation	3d generation
quarks ( $q$ )
up-type	up quark ( $u$ )	charm quark ( $c$ )	top quark ( $t$ )
down-type	down quark ( $d$ )	strange quark ( $s$ )	bottom quark ( $b$ )
leptons
charged	electron	muon	tauon
neutral	electron neutrino	muon neutrino	tau neutrino

bound states:
mesons	light mesons: pion ( $u d$ ) ρ-meson ( $u d$ ) ω-meson ( $u d$ ) f1-meson a1-meson	strange-mesons: ϕ-meson ( $s \bar s$ ), kaon, K-meson ( $u s$ , $d s$ ) eta-meson ( $u u + d d + s s$ ) charmed heavy mesons*: D-meson ( $u c$ , $d c$ , $s c$ ) J/ψ-meson ( $c \bar c$ )	bottom heavy mesons: B-meson ( $q b$ ) ϒ-meson ( $b \bar b$ )
baryons	nucleons: proton $(u u d)$ neutron $(u d d)$

hadrons (bound states of the above quarks)

bosinos:

dark matter candidates

Exotica

auxiliary fields

Robert E. Marshak, Conceptual Foundations of Modern Particle Physics, World Scientific 1993 (doi:10.1142/1767)
Ulrich Mosel, Fields, Symmetries, and Quarks, Springer 1999 (doi:10.1007/978-3-662-03841-3)
James Dodd, Ben Gripaios, The Ideas of Particle Physics, Cambridge University Press 2020 (ISBN:9781108727402, doi:10.1017/9781108616270)
Wikipedia, Particle physics
Mark Thomson, Particle physics handouts
Particle Data Group, Review of Particle Physics, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Volume 2020, Issue 8, August 2020, 083C01 (doi:10.1093/ptep/ptaa104)

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