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Particle Charge Antiparticle Charge
Electron 푒− - 1 Positron 푒+ +1
Neutrino v 0 Antineutrino
푣̅0
Up quark u (^) +^2
3
antiup 푢̅ (^) -^2
3
Down quark
d
−^13 antidown 푑̅^ +^1
3
Table 1: The elementary, fundamental, blocks of matter and
their corresponding antimatter as part of the Standard Model of
Particle Physics.
As shown in the table above, the fundamental blocks of baryonic
matter are only two, a quark and an electron. A proton is made
of two up quarks and one down quark, whereas a neutron is
made up of two down quarks and one up quarks. This means the
overall charge of a proton is: