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= Particle physics
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Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the fundamental constituents of matter and radiation, as well as the interactions between them. The field focuses on understanding the basic building blocks of the universe, such as elementary particles, which include quarks, leptons (including electrons and neutrinos), and gauge bosons (which mediate forces, like photons for the electromagnetic force and W and Z bosons for the weak force).