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Beyond Truth and Beauty: A Fourth Family of Particles

Three families of the fundamental particles called quarks and leptons are known. Recent experiments hint that there is one more family, but there are probably no more than five

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 259 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “Beyond Truth and Beauty: A Fourth Family of Particles” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 259 No. 2 (), p. 60
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0888-60