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NOTE TO MODERATOR: Please look over the full answerline and the giveaway sentence of this tossup before reading it for the teams. A pair of these particles is created in a Drell-Yan process.The Higgs boson can decay into 4 of this type of particle via an intermediate of two Z bosons. These particles are fired at the insides of hadrons to probe their structure in deep inelastic scattering experiments. Examining the number of these particles before and after a particle interaction yields 4 conservation laws: one for the total amount of these particles and 3 for the different types of them. In addition to (*) quarks, this type of particle is divided into three generations, each containing one neutral particle and one particle with a charge of minus 1. For 10 points, name this group of 6 fermionic elementary particles which includes the neutrinos, the tauon, muon, and electron.
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leptons [if they buzz with any specific type of lepton (read the giveaway), prompt them by asking them to give a more general answer]