Fermion

Layer 1 — Physicsin the standard-model subtree

A particle with half-integer spin (½, 3/2, …) obeying Fermi-Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle. All matter particles in the Standard Model (quarks and leptons) are spin-½ fermions. Fermions are the building blocks of atoms,…

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