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Maons, also translated as Maons, is a particle naming method proposed by American physicist Sheldon Glashow in 1977.

In particle physics, elementary particles are the most basic units of matter. Its internal structure is unknown, and it is impossible to confirm whether it is composed of other more basic particles. With the continuous development of physics, people's understanding of the composition of matter has gradually deepened, so the definition of elementary particles has also changed with time.

At present, under the framework of the standard model theory, the known elementary particles can be divided into fermions (including quarks and leptons) and bosons (including gauge bosons and Higgs particles). Composite particles are composed of two or more elementary particles.

Matter in our daily life is made up of atoms. In the past, it was thought that atoms were basic particles, and the word atom came from the Greek word "inseparable".

Until about 19 10 years ago, the existence of atoms was controversial. Some physicists believe that matter is made up of energy, while molecules are just a mathematical guess. It was later discovered that the nucleus was composed of protons and neutrons. The elementary particles in the first and middle period of the 20th century refer to protons, neutrons, electrons, photons and various mesons, which are the smallest particles that can be detected by human beings at that time.

With the development of experiments and quantum field theory, it is found that the discovery of protons, neutrons and mesons is composed of more basic quarks and gluons. At the same time, humans have discovered a series of leptons with similar properties to electrons and a series of gauge bosons with similar properties to photons and gluons. These are the basic particles understood by modern physics.