Subparticles: Definition & Explanation

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Subparticles refer primarily to subatomic particles, including protons, neutrons, and electrons, as well as quarks and various virtual particles like pions and gluons. There are two main categories of subatomic particles: hadrons, which include baryons and mesons, and leptons, which consist of elementary particles like electrons and neutrinos. Hadrons interact via the strong force, while leptons do not, instead interacting through the electroweak and gravitational forces. Force carriers such as photons and gluons facilitate interactions between matter through their respective forces. Understanding these classifications is essential for grasping the fundamental structure of matter.
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what is subparticles?

can anyone tell me?
 
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Probably subatomic particles. Protons, neutrons, and electrons. It could also refer to up and down quarks or any of the virtual particles exchanged in the atom such as pions (to hold the nucleas together), photons (to keep the electrons close to the nucleas), gluons (to hold the nucleons together), and weak bosons (in some radioactive decays).

Posting in one of the physics boards will probably give you a more satisfying response.
 
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there are two main groups of subatomic particles: lepitons and quarks. Quarks are the building block of matter. ex. neutrons, protons, neutrinos, etc... while lepitons are just particles that are elementary, ex. photons, electrons.
 
Photons are not leptons.
 
my mistake.
 
Neutrinos are leptons.

6 Quarks : Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Charm, Strange
6 Leptons : Electron, Muon, Tau, Neutrino-electron, Neutrino-muon, Neutrino-tau
 
alpha_wolf said:
And yet they are not composed of quarks either, are they? So they're basically some weird exception, kind of a group of its own?



Right. You have two main groups: hadrons and leptons. Hadrons are the particles which can interact via the strong force. examples of hadrons are baryons (like proton, neutron) and mesons . baryons are built out of three quarks with each one colour. Mesons consist of two quarks, a quark and anti-quark. There are six quarks as mentioned above.

Leptons can never feel the strong force. examples are the elektron and the neutrino's (coming from decay-processes) . Leptons feel the elektroweakforce and the gravitational force

Remenber that hadrons can also feel the elektroweak and gravitational force, but it is just that leptons NEVER feel the strong force
 
These hadrons and leptons build up all matter.

Fotons and gluons and so on are force carriers. The represent the interactions between matter through forces that they represent.

fotons for EM
gluons for strong force
vektorbosons for weak force (decay-processes)

greetz
nikolaas van der heyden
 

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