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We present in terms of elementary Feynman diagrams the basic processes of strong interactions involving quarks and gluons as well as those of the weak interactions which involve all matter-particles (quarks and leptons) emitting or absorbing vector bosons (\(Z^{0} ,\,\,\,W^{ + } ,\,\,\,W^{ - }\)). The emission or absorption of a \(W^{ \pm }\) boson imply a transformation of the m-particle involved. Finally, we mention briefly the Newtonian version of gravitational interactions as well as an outline of the formulation of the general theory of relativity developed by Einstein.
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Economou, E.N. (2016). The Other Interactions. In: From Quarks to the Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20654-7_7
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