# nLab matter

Contents

## Surveys, textbooks and lecture notes

#### Fields and quanta

field (physics)

standard model of particle physics

force field gauge bosons

scalar bosons

flavors of fundamental fermions in the
standard model of particle physics:
generation of fermions1st generation2nd generation3d generation
quarks ($q$)
up-typeup quark ($u$)charm quark ($c$)top quark ($t$)
down-typedown quark ($d$)strange quark ($s$)bottom quark ($b$)
leptons
chargedelectronmuontauon
neutralelectron neutrinomuon neutrinotau neutrino
bound states:
mesonspion ($u d$)
rho-meson ($u d$)
omega-meson ($u d$)
kaon ($q_{u/d} s$)
eta-meson (u u + d d + s s)
B-meson ($q b$)
baryonsproton $(u u d)$
neutron $(u d d)$

(also: antiparticles)

effective particles

hadron (bound states of the above quarks)

solitons

minimally extended supersymmetric standard model

superpartners

bosinos:

dark matter candidates

Exotica

auxiliary fields

# Contents

## Idea

In particle physics, matter is a bound state of fermionic particles.

This is in contrast to force fields, whose quanta are bosonic particles.

In the standard model of particle physics, all matter fields are sections of a spinor bundle on spacetime which is associated of a $U(1) \times SU(2) \times SU(3)$-principal bundle.

In the standard model of cosmology matter is characterized as part of the energy-momentum density with specific parameter of state $w = p/\rho$, see at FRW model.

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