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Quark

A quark (/ˈkwɔːrk, ˈkwɑːrk/ ⓘ) is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. All commonly observable matter is composed of up quarks, down quarks, and electrons. Owing to a phenomenon…

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Antiparticle
antiquark (q)
Baryon number
⁠1/3⁠
Color charge
yes
Composition
elementary particle
Discovered
SLAC (c. 1968)
Generation
1st, 2nd, 3rd

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Quark

Nodes193
Edges192
Triples200
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010363
Components1

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related to Further reading · 54
Quark → Ali, Almost Everything, An Introduction, Bibcode, Bowley, Brady Haran, Cambridge University Press, Chicago Press, Constructing Quarks, Copeland, Deep Down Things, Discovery, Elementary Particles, European Physical Journal, Gluon Jets, Griffiths, Historical Review, Hughes, Introduction, ISBN
related to Etymology · 22
Quark → Cornwall, English, Especially, Finnegans Wake, For, Freiburg, Gell-Mann, German, German-speaking, Germany, In, Iseult, Jaguar, James Joyce's, Joyce, Joyce's, Mark, Slavic, Some, The
related to External links · 14
Quark → And The Higgs Particle, Burton Richter1976 Physics Nobel, CERN's, GluonsThink Big, Heppenheimer, Makoto Kobayashi2008 Physics Nobel, Murray Gell-Mann1976 Physics Nobel, Physics Nobel Prize, Prize, Quarks, Samuel, Think Big, Ting2008 Physics Nobel Prize, Toshihide MaskawaThe Top Quark
related to history · 14
Quark → An, At, Eightfold Way, Gell-Mann, Gell-Mann's, George Zweig, Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist Yuval Ne'eman, Sakata, SU, The, Their, There, Zweig
related to Interacting quarks · 11
Quark → Above, As, Conversely, Each, In, Since, The, Therefore, These, This, When
related to Mass · 11
Quark → For, GeV/c2, Higgs, It, MeV/c2, Most, QCBE, The Standard Model, These, Two, While
related to Classification · 10
Quark → Antiparticles, As, Pauli, Quarks, Strong, The, The Standard Model, They, This, Unlike
related to Other phases of quark matter · 9
Quark → An, CERN, Eventually, In, Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, The, This, Under, While
related to Strong interaction and color charge · 8
Quark → According, Each, Every, QCD, Similarly, The, There, This
related to Electric charge · 5
Quark → Antiquarks, For, Quarks, Since, Up

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quarks color charge hadrons particles top particle gluons known spin model charm bottom elementary mass flavor three strong physics strange

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QuarkAntiparticleantiquark (q)1.00infobox
QuarkBaryon number⁠1/3⁠1.00infobox
QuarkColor chargeyes1.00infobox
QuarkCompositionelementary particle1.00infobox
QuarkDiscoveredSLAC (c. 1968)1.00infobox
QuarkElectric charge+.mw-parser-output .sfrac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .sfrac.tion,.mw-parser-output .sfrac .tion{display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.5em;font-size:85%;text-align:cen…1.00infobox
QuarkGeneration1st, 2nd, 3rd1.00infobox
QuarkInteractionsstrong, weak, electromagnetic, gravitation1.00infobox
QuarkSpin⁠1/2⁠ ħ1.00infobox
QuarkStatisticsfermionic1.00infobox
QuarkSymbolq1.00infobox
QuarkTheorizedMurray Gell-Mann (1964)1.00infobox
QuarkTheorizedGeorge Zweig (1964)1.00infobox
QuarkTypes6 (up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top)1.00infobox
Quarkis aold English word meaning to croak and the above-quoted lines are about a bird choir mocking king Mark of Cornwall in the legend of Tristan and Iseult0.90text

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