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It really depends on what you mean by "almost no mass".

For example: for a long time, it was thought that neutrinos might be massless. We now know their mass is not exactly zero (and that the three kinds have different masses), but we still don't know exactly what the masses are, the best we can do is say "they have to be less than (some number)." This is complicated by the fact that neutrinos undergo something called "oscillation" where they change from one kind to another, so if we could measure the mass of a neutrino, we'd actually be measuring the mass of a superposition of eigenstates.

Of the neutrinos, the electron neutrino has the lowest mass, with the muon neutrino being more massive and the tau neutrino being more massive still.

Photons, gluons, and the hypothetical gravitons all have an invariant mass of precisely zero.

The lightest confirmed particle that isn't a neutrino and doesn't have an invariant mass of zero is the electron. The electron is probably lighter than the tau neutrino, though for the reasons described above we can't really measure the tau neutrino's mass directly.

All quarks ... which can't exist in an unbound state below extremely high energy densities ... are more massive than electrons, with up quarks being the lightest at somewhere around 5 times the mass of the electron. The top quark is the most massive fundamental particle known, with more mass than most atoms(it's slightly more massive than the average thulium atom).

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