Every fundamental particle.
One chart.
The Standard Model drawn as a map: every quark, lepton, neutrino and boson, and every interaction that joins them. Explore the whole thing right here — then put the 24 × 36 inch print on your wall.
24 × 36 in museum-grade mattePrinted to order and shipped worldwidev64 — checked against PDG 2024
The chart, live
Click anything. Watch what it touches.
The printed chart has to draw every interaction line at once. This one doesn't. Pick a particle and only its own channels appear — pick a force and you see everything it carries. Every line is a real vertex of the Standard Model.
Click any particle — or pick a force — to see what it talks to.
Swipe the chart sideways to see all of it.
This poster is designed to be the “Periodic Table of Fundamental Particles.” The goal is to show all of the particles and help indicate how they relate to each other. Just like the Periodic Table of Elements doesn’t teach all of chemistry, this doesn’t teach all of the Standard Model, but it gives a broad map of key relationships and principles to build from.
The interaction lines
The lines are the whole point.
Most particle charts are a filing cabinet: here are the quarks, here are the leptons, good luck. The interesting part is which ones can actually touch each other — and that's what the coloured lines across the middle of this chart are for.
Matter never touches matter
In the Standard Model two matter particles never interact directly. They always trade a boson. That's why every line on the chart runs between a force carrier and a matter particle, and never from one quark straight to another.
Absence is information
The lines that aren't there matter as much as the ones that are. No line joins the photon to a neutrino, because neutrinos carry no electric charge. None joins the photon to the Higgs, or a gluon to a lepton.
Strong. Gluons to quarks, and gluons to each other. Nothing else feels it — which is why the magenta lines only ever reach the quark panel.
Weak. The only force that reaches every matter particle, including neutrinos, and the only one that changes what a particle is.
Electromagnetic. Acts on electric charge: quarks, charged leptons and the W bosons. Neutrinos are invisible to it.
Higgs. Not a force — a field. It reaches everything with mass, which in the minimal Standard Model means everything except the neutrinos.
How to read it
One card, nine facts.
Every particle gets the same card, so you can compare any two at a glance. The poster's key explains each row; here's the short version.
Mass, charge, spin
The three numbers you probably came for. Mass is given in MeV/c², charge in units of the electron's, and spin as the quantum number.
Chirality and weak isospin
The green hands are the left- and right-handed components of the field, with the weak isospin each one carries. Only the left-handed component feels the W — which is the single strangest fact on the chart.
Colour, variants, rarity, lifetime
Quarks come in three colours, so each flavour is really six particles. Rarity and mean lifetime tell you whether you'd ever meet one.
Beyond the fundamentals
And then it builds a world.
The right-hand side of the poster follows the particles upward: quarks into hadrons, hadrons into nuclei, nuclei and electrons into atoms — and the forces that hold each stage together.
On the wall
Three feet wide. You can read it from the doorway.
The chart is drawn to be used, not just hung: big enough to take in the whole Standard Model from across the room, dense enough to stand two feet away and read a single card.
Printed when you order it.
Nothing sits in a warehouse. Each poster is printed on museum-grade matte stock, rolled, and shipped in a rigid mailer — usually on its way within two to five business days, from the printer closest to you.
Get the poster$38The print
The Standard Model,
24 × 36 inches.
Big enough to read from across the room and detailed enough to stand two feet away with. Printed when you order it, on heavy matte stock that doesn't glare under a lamp.
- 24 × 36 inches, landscape
- Museum-quality matte paper, 189 g/m² — no glare under a lamp
- 10.3 mil thick, 94% opacity, paper sourced from Japan
- Printed when you order it and shipped rolled, worldwide
Order by December 10 for Christmas delivery in the US.
Who made this
Riley Adamson, Salt Lake City, Utah
My background is in design, and I’ve always admired those who grasp the intricate math behind quantum mechanics. In another universe, I’d like to think I pursued physics and made meaningful contributions to its advancement. In this universe, I wanted to contribute in the best way I could: by visualizing the relationships between fundamental particles.
I’m not a particle physicist, so if you spot any errors or have suggestions for improvement, I’d greatly appreciate your input.
Version 64, checked line by line against the Particle Data Group's 2024 values. Spot something wrong? I'd genuinely like to know.
Riley Adamson
Part of the RileyAdamson.com family of projects.