• 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 are...
    11 KB (988 words) - 09:12, 25 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Top quark
    either a bottom quark (most frequently), a strange quark, or, on the rarest of occasions, a down quark. The Standard Model determines the top quark's mean...
    34 KB (3,750 words) - 07:58, 19 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Quark
    flavors, of quarks: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Up and down quarks have the lowest masses of all quarks. The heavier quarks rapidly change...
    77 KB (7,558 words) - 06:27, 22 July 2025
  • Current quarks (also called naked quarks or bare quarks) are a description of valence quarks as the cores of the quark particles that are the invariable...
    6 KB (709 words) - 13:13, 18 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Charm quark
    The charm quark, charmed quark, or c quark is an elementary particle found in composite subatomic particles called hadrons such as the J/psi meson and...
    38 KB (3,990 words) - 22:13, 23 June 2025
  • quarks (up, charm, and top quarks) are called up-type quarks and have T3 = ⁠++1/2⁠ ; the negatively charged quarks (down, strange, and bottom quarks)...
    24 KB (2,963 words) - 05:44, 5 June 2025
  • reflecting the difference between the number of bottom antiquarks (nb) and the number of bottom quarks (nb) that are present in a particle: B ′ = − ( n...
    2 KB (185 words) - 18:24, 10 January 2024
  • A constituent quark is a current quark with a notional "covering" induced by the renormalization group. In the low-energy limit of QCD, a description by...
    2 KB (229 words) - 12:20, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Meson
    Meson (redirect from Bottom meson)
    containing the charm quark, first seen 1974, is about three times as massive as a proton, and the upsilon meson (ϒ) containing the bottom quark, first seen in...
    71 KB (5,020 words) - 21:21, 18 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Quark–gluon plasma
    Quark–gluon plasma (QGP or quark soup) is an interacting localized assembly of quarks and gluons at thermal (local kinetic) and (close to) chemical (abundance)...
    63 KB (7,438 words) - 22:19, 18 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Standard Model
    interact with baryonic matter. There are six quarks: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Quarks carry color charge, and hence interact via the...
    67 KB (7,541 words) - 06:57, 23 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Quark model
    In particle physics, the quark model is a classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks—the quarks and antiquarks that give rise to...
    20 KB (2,576 words) - 13:45, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Elementary particle
    accurately known quark mass is of the top quark (t) at 172.7 GeV/c2, estimated using the on-shell scheme. Estimates of the values of quark masses depend...
    36 KB (3,558 words) - 02:55, 8 July 2025
  • Top and bottom can mean more than one thing. In the context of particle physics: Top quark Bottom quark In the context of sexuality: Top, bottom and versatile...
    363 bytes (84 words) - 08:30, 9 January 2022
  • down quark (symbol: d) is a type of elementary particle, and a major constituent of matter. The down quark is the second-lightest of all quarks, and combines...
    12 KB (1,159 words) - 02:24, 16 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Matter
    includes the charm and strange quarks, the muon and the muon neutrino; the third generation consists of the top and bottom quarks and the tau and tau neutrino...
    80 KB (9,472 words) - 07:18, 17 July 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bottom eta meson
    The bottom eta meson (η b) or eta-b meson is a flavourless meson formed from a bottom quark and its antiparticle. It was first observed by the BaBar experiment...
    2 KB (141 words) - 09:37, 15 June 2025
  • It, along with the down quark, forms the neutrons (one up quark, two down quarks) and protons (two up quarks, one down quark) of atomic nuclei. It is...
    12 KB (1,126 words) - 14:47, 14 March 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lambda baryon
    (charmness), B′ (bottomness), T (topness), u (up quark), d (down quark), s (strange quark), c (charm quark), b (bottom quark), t (top quark), as well as other...
    20 KB (1,432 words) - 04:03, 25 July 2024
  • The strange quark or s quark (from its symbol, s) is the third lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle. Strange quarks are found in subatomic...
    14 KB (1,318 words) - 17:47, 8 April 2025
  • Thumbnail for Hadron
    and bottom quarks; the top quark vanishes before it has time to bind into a hadron). The strength of the strong-force gluons which bind the quarks together...
    16 KB (1,844 words) - 15:17, 23 June 2025
  • Thumbnail for Omega baryon
    quarks are called omega baryons. By default, the quarks are strange quarks, but those with one or more the strange quarks replaced by charm or bottom...
    14 KB (996 words) - 19:18, 26 May 2025
  • Thumbnail for Baryon
    number of valence quarks, conventionally three. Protons and neutrons are examples of baryons; because baryons are composed of quarks, they belong to the...
    30 KB (3,497 words) - 02:07, 2 May 2025
  • 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 quark is...
    14 KB (973 words) - 22:34, 23 June 2025
  • QCD matter (redirect from Quark matter)
    Quark matter or QCD matter (quantum chromodynamic) refers to any of a number of hypothetical phases of matter whose degrees of freedom include quarks...
    24 KB (3,228 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2025
  • are added for each even heavier charm or bottom quark that replaces one of the two presumed strange quarks. They are historically called the cascade...
    27 KB (1,345 words) - 17:08, 18 July 2025
  • hypernuclei. A number of charmed and bottom baryons have also been observed. Pentaquarks consist of four valence quarks and one valence antiquark. Other exotic...
    25 KB (2,542 words) - 18:53, 17 May 2025
  • in the technical analysis of securities Bottom quark, a subatomic particle Trousers, Shorts and other "bottom wear", pieces of clothing to cover the lower...
    3 KB (406 words) - 17:41, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Subatomic particle
    of three quarks; or a meson, composed of two quarks), or an elementary particle, which is not composed of other particles (for example, quarks; or electrons...
    36 KB (3,385 words) - 08:05, 15 July 2025
  • the quark masses). The three heavy quarks: the charm quark, bottom quark, and top quark, have masses much larger than the scale of the strong interactions...
    19 KB (2,740 words) - 07:58, 6 July 2025