detection of the top quark , if confirmed , completes one system of subatomic building block its existence is known by the prevailing theory , called the standard model , of the interactions and pressure that shape the fundamental nature of matter and energy . in the delightfully idioms of modern physics , the elementary particles are called quarks , leptons and bosons .
Quarks, leptons, and bosons are the three elementary particles of physics according to the Standard Model.