What is the latest on the periodic table of particles?

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The periodic table of particles, akin to Mendeleiev's table, is still a developing concept with only three known generations of fundamental particles: leptons and quarks. Current scientific understanding lacks a satisfactory explanation for why these generations exist, and while some suggest these particles may be composite, there is no evidence to support this theory. Resources such as the SLAC and University of Sydney websites provide insights into the structure and classification of these particles. Despite ongoing research, the quest for a comprehensive understanding of particle generations remains challenging. The discussion highlights the complexity and evolving nature of particle physics.
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I've heard that there's a periodic tables of particles, I've searched the net but have yielded little results. Is it still in the works? or is it out yet?
 
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Call it periodic table is more like a joke, considering the few numbers of particles. There are 3 generations, would you say you definitely have observed a periodic signal in only 3 periods ? Besides, when we talk about Mendeleiev periodic table, we know where the structure comes from, we understand what is meant here by periodic. The reason why the atomic properties are periodic is traced back to the electronic strucure of atoms. In the case of particles, we contemplate 3 generations, without (yet) having found a satisfactory reason for those 3 generations. I hope you can find useful information here :
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/theory/fundamental.html
 
This is the clearest statement by an accepted authority, that explains current beliefs that I have found to date.

The fundamental particles
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/hienergy/probing_structure.html


Three and only three?
It is not yet known why there should be successive "families" or "generations" of fundamental particles in this way. The fact that both the leptons and the quarks are laid out in a repeating structure, suggests to some that these particles may themselves be composite, made up of yet smaller entities the way that nuclei are made up of protons and neutrons, while protons and neutrons are made up of quarks.
To date there is no evidence for this. A 1996 suggestion of quark structure by the CDF collaboration, discoverers of the top quark, has more recently appeared to be something more prosaic.
There do seem to be only three generations


I am sorry I cannot be more helpful as this is my speciality, but amatuer theories are not permitted on this PF. My work has been debated by two colleges of higher education, one scientific debating group and I once received a correction from a leading astrophysicist who's work I had quoted; but I cannot get it peer reviewed. These are problems all researchers have to face, but the struggle is its own reward.
Enjoy your research
elas
 
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In 1961 Gell-Mann classified hadrons in a theory called Eightfold Way. Perhaps is what you re searching
http://zyx.org/EIGHTFOLD.html
"Eightfold Way,
classification of subatomic particles known as hadrons into groups on the basis of their symmetrical properties, the number of members of each group being 1, 8 (most frequently), 10, or 27."
 
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This?

This is a simplified one, with only a few, a table of particles... standard model...

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Scroll down when taken to http://wc0.worldcrossing.com/WebX?50@87.uWONcZfwCDg.0@.1ddf905d and you will find a good explanation and a couple of links that will really help.
 
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