The Standard Model

The full cast

An interactive lesson with 6 steps, about 5 minutes: you predict, drag and solve, with instant feedback on every answer. It runs in your browser and needs JavaScript.

What you’ll learn

• Standard Model: 6 quarks, 6 leptons, the force carriers, and the Higgs boson.
• Everyday matter uses only up and down quarks, and electrons.
• The Standard Model doesn’t include gravity or dark matter.

Steps

1. The particle table
2. Three generations
3. Ghost particles
4. A huge range of masses
5. Top versus electron
6. What’s missing?