How many elementary particles are there?

[ehrenfest]

I am confused. I thought that the standard model included 6 quarks and 6 antiquarks, 6 leptons and 6 antileptons and 5 bosons (W+,W-,Z,photon,gluon).

However in Griffith's "Introduction to Elementary Particles" (on page 48) he says that there are "12 leptons, 36 quarks, 12 mediators".

I am thinking of the t,b,u,d,s,c and their antiparticles for the quarks.

So can someone please account for the remaining 24 quarks and the remaining 7 bosons?

 

[humanino]

So can someone please account for the remaining 24 quarks and the remaining 7 bosons?

Color is as good a charge as electric charge. You miss a factor 3 on quarks, and a factor 9 on gluons minus one color scalar gluon.

 

[fedaykin]

Higg's Boson and graviton are the only other fundamental bosons I've heard of, and they're not even verified yet.

Oh, if you count the 8 gluons it works out. Der...

 

[humanino]

Higg's Boson and graviton are the only other fundamental bosons I've heard of, and they're not even verified yet.

As mentioned by the OP, the photon, the Ws and the Z are other gauge bosons. Those are established beyond doubt.

 

[fedaykin]

Yeah, I wish I could have deleted that post. For the future, I promise to be less impulsive.