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Leptons

The leptons make a short list and are easy to classify by the three known "flavours" -- e, and . Each type experiences gravity, the electroweak interaction and apparently nothing else.

  

Table: The leptons (particles with only weak and sometimes electromagnetic interactions). All leptons have spin and are therefore fermions. Each "generation" of lepton has its own distinctive "flavour" (electron, muon, tau) and is governed by its own conserved "lepton number." For each particle there corresponds an antiparticle of the same mass and spin but with opposite values of electric charge and lepton number of the corresponding flavour.


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