discovery of the top quark , if confirmed , completes one list of subatomic building blocks whose existence is confirmed by the prevailing theory , called the standard description , of the particles and forces that influence the major parts of being and energy . in the whimsical lexicon of modern physics , the elementary objects are called atoms , leptons and boson .
Quarks, leptons, and bosons are the three elementary particles of physics according to the Standard Model.