What lies beyond quarks, leptons and bosons?
You’ve heard of electrons, protons and neutrons, Haven’t you? But these well-known sub-atomic particles are only a few of what makes up what is called the Standard Model of the sub-atomic world.
Many of the other sub-atomic particles that we know about are grouped into families called quarks, leptons and bosons. You might have heard of the Higgs particle – that’s a boson which was discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on the French-Swiss border.
Now the Large Hadron Collider has been doubled in power and just re-opened for a new set of experiments that might take us beyond the Standard Model. You’ll find a simple explanation of what’s going on here.