discovery of the top quark , if established , completes two set of neutrino building bricks whose life is predict by the prevailing theory , called the standard model , of the particles and forces that shape the fundamental nature of matter and energy . in the whimsical dictionary 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.