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How many elementary particles have been discovered.
Norman said:please see http://pdg.lbl.gov/pdg.html
There are 6 different quarks, 6 different leptons, and 12 different gauge bosons. Then you have all the antiparticles for these different particles. This is in regards to the standard model of particle physics. Please see the link above for much more detail.
Cheers,
Ryan
arivero said:I love this question, because if you go into details... how should you count the particles? It seems that for fermions it is a question of mass, if the mass is the same you consider it to be the same particle, even if the charge is not. But for bosons we count W+ and W- as two particles.
If we include charge and antiparticles in the fermions, we have
6*3*2= 36 quarks and
6*2= 12 leptons
If we consider Parity, we have
36*2= 72 quarks
12*2= 24 leptons, or we had 18 if there were not right neutrinos.
thus about 96 "particles".