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Enum: SubatomicParticleEnum

Fundamental and composite subatomic particles

URI: valuesets:SubatomicParticleEnum

Permissible Values

Value Meaning Description
ELECTRON CHEBI:10545 Elementary particle with -1 charge, spin 1/2
POSITRON CHEBI:30225 Antiparticle of electron with +1 charge
MUON CHEBI:36356 Heavy lepton with -1 charge
TAU_LEPTON CHEBI:36355 Heaviest lepton with -1 charge
ELECTRON_NEUTRINO CHEBI:30223 Electron neutrino, nearly massless
MUON_NEUTRINO CHEBI:36353 Muon neutrino
TAU_NEUTRINO CHEBI:36354 Tau neutrino
UP_QUARK CHEBI:36366 First generation quark with +2/3 charge
DOWN_QUARK CHEBI:36367 First generation quark with -1/3 charge
CHARM_QUARK CHEBI:36369 Second generation quark with +2/3 charge
STRANGE_QUARK CHEBI:36368 Second generation quark with -1/3 charge
TOP_QUARK CHEBI:36371 Third generation quark with +2/3 charge
BOTTOM_QUARK CHEBI:36370 Third generation quark with -1/3 charge
PHOTON CHEBI:30212 Force carrier for electromagnetic interaction
W_BOSON CHEBI:36343 Force carrier for weak interaction
Z_BOSON CHEBI:36344 Force carrier for weak interaction
GLUON None Force carrier for strong interaction
HIGGS_BOSON CHEBI:146278 Scalar boson responsible for mass
PROTON CHEBI:24636 Positively charged nucleon
NEUTRON CHEBI:30222 Neutral nucleon
ALPHA_PARTICLE CHEBI:30216 Helium-4 nucleus
DEUTERON CHEBI:29233 Hydrogen-2 nucleus
TRITON CHEBI:29234 Hydrogen-3 nucleus

Slots

Name Description
subatomic_particle Fundamental and composite subatomic particles

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

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name: SubatomicParticleEnum
description: Fundamental and composite subatomic particles
from_schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/valuesets
rank: 1000
permissible_values:
  ELECTRON:
    text: ELECTRON
    description: Elementary particle with -1 charge, spin 1/2
    meaning: CHEBI:10545
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 0.51099895 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '-1'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: lepton
  POSITRON:
    text: POSITRON
    description: Antiparticle of electron with +1 charge
    meaning: CHEBI:30225
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 0.51099895 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '+1'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: lepton
  MUON:
    text: MUON
    description: Heavy lepton with -1 charge
    meaning: CHEBI:36356
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 105.658 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '-1'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: lepton
  TAU_LEPTON:
    text: TAU_LEPTON
    description: Heaviest lepton with -1 charge
    meaning: CHEBI:36355
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 1777.05 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '-1'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: lepton
  ELECTRON_NEUTRINO:
    text: ELECTRON_NEUTRINO
    description: Electron neutrino, nearly massless
    meaning: CHEBI:30223
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: <2.2 eV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '0'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: lepton
  MUON_NEUTRINO:
    text: MUON_NEUTRINO
    description: Muon neutrino
    meaning: CHEBI:36353
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: <0.17 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '0'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: lepton
  TAU_NEUTRINO:
    text: TAU_NEUTRINO
    description: Tau neutrino
    meaning: CHEBI:36354
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: <15.5 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '0'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: lepton
  UP_QUARK:
    text: UP_QUARK
    description: First generation quark with +2/3 charge
    meaning: CHEBI:36366
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 2.16 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: +2/3
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: quark
      generation:
        tag: generation
        value: '1'
    title: up quark
  DOWN_QUARK:
    text: DOWN_QUARK
    description: First generation quark with -1/3 charge
    meaning: CHEBI:36367
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 4.67 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: -1/3
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: quark
      generation:
        tag: generation
        value: '1'
  CHARM_QUARK:
    text: CHARM_QUARK
    description: Second generation quark with +2/3 charge
    meaning: CHEBI:36369
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 1.27 GeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: +2/3
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: quark
      generation:
        tag: generation
        value: '2'
    title: charm quark
  STRANGE_QUARK:
    text: STRANGE_QUARK
    description: Second generation quark with -1/3 charge
    meaning: CHEBI:36368
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 93.4 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: -1/3
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: quark
      generation:
        tag: generation
        value: '2'
    title: strange quark
  TOP_QUARK:
    text: TOP_QUARK
    description: Third generation quark with +2/3 charge
    meaning: CHEBI:36371
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 172.76 GeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: +2/3
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: quark
      generation:
        tag: generation
        value: '3'
  BOTTOM_QUARK:
    text: BOTTOM_QUARK
    description: Third generation quark with -1/3 charge
    meaning: CHEBI:36370
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 4.18 GeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: -1/3
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: quark
      generation:
        tag: generation
        value: '3'
    title: bottom quark
  PHOTON:
    text: PHOTON
    description: Force carrier for electromagnetic interaction
    meaning: CHEBI:30212
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: '0'
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '0'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: '1'
      type:
        tag: type
        value: gauge boson
  W_BOSON:
    text: W_BOSON
    description: Force carrier for weak interaction
    meaning: CHEBI:36343
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 80.379 GeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: ±1
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: '1'
      type:
        tag: type
        value: gauge boson
    title: composite particle
  Z_BOSON:
    text: Z_BOSON
    description: Force carrier for weak interaction
    meaning: CHEBI:36344
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 91.1876 GeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '0'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: '1'
      type:
        tag: type
        value: gauge boson
    title: hadron
  GLUON:
    text: GLUON
    description: Force carrier for strong interaction
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: '0'
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '0'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: '1'
      type:
        tag: type
        value: gauge boson
      color_charge:
        tag: color_charge
        value: 'yes'
  HIGGS_BOSON:
    text: HIGGS_BOSON
    description: Scalar boson responsible for mass
    meaning: CHEBI:146278
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 125.25 GeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '0'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: '0'
      type:
        tag: type
        value: scalar boson
  PROTON:
    text: PROTON
    description: Positively charged nucleon
    meaning: CHEBI:24636
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 938.272 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '+1'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: baryon
      composition:
        tag: composition
        value: uud
  NEUTRON:
    text: NEUTRON
    description: Neutral nucleon
    meaning: CHEBI:30222
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 939.565 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '0'
      spin:
        tag: spin
        value: 1/2
      type:
        tag: type
        value: baryon
      composition:
        tag: composition
        value: udd
  ALPHA_PARTICLE:
    text: ALPHA_PARTICLE
    description: Helium-4 nucleus
    meaning: CHEBI:30216
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 3727.379 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '+2'
      composition:
        tag: composition
        value: 2 protons, 2 neutrons
  DEUTERON:
    text: DEUTERON
    description: Hydrogen-2 nucleus
    meaning: CHEBI:29233
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 1875.613 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '+1'
      composition:
        tag: composition
        value: 1 proton, 1 neutron
  TRITON:
    text: TRITON
    description: Hydrogen-3 nucleus
    meaning: CHEBI:29234
    annotations:
      mass:
        tag: mass
        value: 2808.921 MeV/c²
      charge:
        tag: charge
        value: '+1'
      composition:
        tag: composition
        value: 1 proton, 2 neutrons