Statistics for Particle Physics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Least massive, most stable charged lepton	Electron	95%
Particle made up of 2 down quarks, one up quark	Neutron	94%
Particle made up of 2 up quarks, one down quark	Proton	94%
Particle that carries the electromagnetic force	Photon	78%
Particle that carries the gravitational force	Graviton	74%
Stable lepton with opposite charge from electron	Positron	74%
Lepton with no electric charge and very little mass	Neutrino	73%
Boson with no spin, electric charge, or colour charge and provides the mechanism for other particles to obtain mass	Higgs Boson	71%
Particle that carries the strong nuclear force	Gluon	67%
More massive charged lepton	Muon	64%
Most massive charged lepton	Tau	53%
Name for types of particles made up of 3 quarks	Baryon	50%
Particles that carry the weak nuclear force	W Boson and Z Boson	50%
Composite particle made of 1 quark and 1 antiquark	Meson	49%