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Leptons

The leptons make a short list and are easy to classify by the three known `` flavours'' --- e, and . Each type experiences gravity, the electroweak interaction and apparently nothing else.

  
Table: The leptons (particles with only weak and sometimes electromagnetic interactions). All leptons have spin and are therefore fermions. Each ``generation'' of lepton has its own distinctive ``flavour'' (electron, muon, tau) and is governed by its own conserved ``lepton number.'' For each particle there corresponds an antiparticle of the same mass and spin but with opposite values of electric charge and lepton number of the corresponding flavour.