discovery of the third quark , if confirmed , opens one set of subatomic building blocks ' existence is predicted by the prevailing theory , called the standard model , of the laws and pulls that determine the fundamental nature of matter and force . in the whimsical lexicon of modern mathematics , 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.