Particle Physics Vocabulary

Particles made of quarks are called

• Hadrons

• Leptons

• Dark Matter

• Gluons

These are particles that have an odd number of quarks

• Mesons

• Baryons

• Leptons

• Gluons

These are particles that have an even number of quarks

• Mesons

• Baryons

• Leptons

• Gluons

Particles with a half-integer spin are called...

• Fermions

• Bosons

• Gluons

• Leptons

Particles with an integer spin are called...

• Fermions

• Bosons

• Gluons

• Leptons

These particles carry the strong force

• Gluons

• Photons

• W bosons

• Z bosons

These particles carry the weak force

• Gluons

• Photons

• W bosons

• Z bosons

These particles carry the electromagnetic force

• Gluons

• Photons

• W bosons

• Z bosons

What is the spin of gluons?

• 0

• 1/2

• 1

• 3/2

True, False or Unknown: Most of the mass in a proton comes from the Higgs Field

• True

• False

• Unknown