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Encyclopedia > Quark (disambiguation)

A quark is a subatomic particle. These are the 6 quarks and their most likely decay modes. ...


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Quark (2042 words)
Quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter in the Standard Model of particle physics.
Since quarks are fermions, the Pauli exclusion principle implies that the three valence quarks must be in an antisymmetric combination in a baryon.
The masses of the heavy charm and bottom quarks are obtained from the masses of hadrons containing a single heavy quark (and one light antiquark or two light quarks) and from the analysis of quarkonia.
Quark - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (2038 words)
Quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter in the Standard Model of particle physics.
The masses of the heavy charm and bottom quarks are obtained from the masses of hadrons containing a single heavy quark (and one light antiquark or two light quarks) and from the analysis of quarkonia.
The existence of a third generation of quarks was predicted by Kobayashi and Maskawa who realized that the observed violation of CP symmetry by neutral kaons could not be accommodated into the Standard Model with two generations of quarks.
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