• The bottom quark, beauty quark, or b quark, is an elementary particle of the third generation. It is a heavy quark with a charge of −⁠1/3⁠ e. All quarks...
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  • Up quark (redirect from Up antiquark)
    and strong interactions. The antiparticle of the up quark is the up antiquark (sometimes called antiup quark or simply antiup), which differs from it...
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  • strong interactions. The antiparticle of the strange quark is the strange antiquark (sometimes called antistrange quark or simply antistrange), which differs...
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    Quark (redirect from Antiquark)
    down ( d ), strange ( s ), charm ( c ), bottom ( b ), and top ( t ). Antiparticles of quarks are called antiquarks, and are denoted by a bar over the symbol...
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    classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks—the quarks and antiquarks that give rise to the quantum numbers of the hadrons. The quark model...
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    Charm quark (redirect from Charm antiquark)
    suggested that the particle was composed of a charm quark and a charm antiquark whose spins were aligned in parallel. The two called this configuration...
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    Top quark (redirect from Top antiquark)
    to the rhenium atom mass. The antiparticle of the top quark is the top antiquark (symbol: t, sometimes called antitop quark or simply antitop), which differs...
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  • Down quark (redirect from Down antiquark)
    and strong interactions. The antiparticle of the down quark is the down antiquark (sometimes called antidown quark or simply antidown), which differs from...
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  • number of charmed and bottom baryons have also been observed. Pentaquarks consist of four valence quarks and one valence antiquark. Other exotic baryons...
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    Meson (redirect from Bottom meson)
    hadronic subatomic particle composed of an equal number of quarks and antiquarks, usually one of each, bound together by the strong interaction. Because...
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  • composed of a bottom antiquark and either an up ( B+ ), down ( B0 ), strange ( B0 s) or charm quark ( B+ c). The combination of a bottom antiquark and a top...
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    terms of valence quarks, an antiproton consists of two up antiquarks and one down antiquark ( u u d ). The properties of the antiproton that have been...
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    is composed of antiquarks, while neutrons are composed of quarks. The antineutron consists of one up antiquark and two down antiquarks. The antineutron...
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    mesons, made of an even number of quarks (usually two: one quark and one antiquark). Protons and neutrons (which make the majority of the mass of an atom)...
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    enough distance, it becomes energetically more favorable to pull a quark–antiquark pair out of the vacuum rather than increase the length of the flux tube...
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  • states, which are made of a heavy quark such as the charm or bottom quark and its antiquark. (Top quarks are so heavy that they decay through the weak force...
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    corresponding antiparticle, the antiproton, is made of two up antiquarks and one down antiquark. Baryons participate in the residual strong force, which is...
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    listed in the table; however, they simply would have all quarks changed to antiquarks, and Q, B, S, C, B′, T, would be of opposite signs. I, J, and P values...
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  • in each process have opposite chirality, u is an up quark, d is a down antiquark, and e+ is a positron. A Y boson would have the following three decay...
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    subatomic particles: π0 , π+ , and π− . Each pion consists of a quark and an antiquark and is therefore a meson. Pions are the lightest mesons and, more generally...
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    Up (quark antiquark) Down (quark antiquark) Charm (quark antiquark) Strange (quark antiquark) Top (quark antiquark) Bottom (quark antiquark) Leptons Electron...
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    quarks and leptons but not antiquarks or antileptons), and whether other places are almost entirely antimatter (antiquarks and antileptons) instead. In...
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  • Up (quark antiquark) Down (quark antiquark) Charm (quark antiquark) Strange (quark antiquark) Top (quark antiquark) Bottom (quark antiquark) Leptons Electron...
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  • particles are vector bosons, for instance any vector meson (quark and antiquark). During the 1970s and 1980s, intermediate vector bosons (the W and Z...
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  • antiparticle Delta states with opposite charges, made up of the corresponding antiquarks. The states were established experimentally at the University of Chicago...
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  • Up (quark antiquark) Down (quark antiquark) Charm (quark antiquark) Strange (quark antiquark) Top (quark antiquark) Bottom (quark antiquark) Leptons Electron...
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  • Up (quark antiquark) Down (quark antiquark) Charm (quark antiquark) Strange (quark antiquark) Top (quark antiquark) Bottom (quark antiquark) Leptons Electron...
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    are understood to be bound states of a strange quark (or antiquark) and an up or down antiquark (or quark). Kaons have proved to be a copious source of...
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    antiparticle and has an electric charge of +1 e. Isolated quarks and antiquarks have never been detected, a fact explained by confinement. Every quark...
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    is the (real) electron mass and ℏ is reduced Planck constant. Near the bottom of the conduction band of a semiconductor, the dispersion relation is instead...
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