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- The proton and neutron are composed of up and down quarks. What is made up of all the rest quarks?
The proton and neutron are composed of up and down quarks. What is made up of all the rest quarks?
In general the various quarks make up a large family of baryons and mesons. See, for example:Sheldon73 said:Summary:: The proton and neutron are composed of up and down quarks. What is made up of all the rest quarks?
The proton and neutron are composed of up and down quarks. What is made up of all the rest quarks?
Orodruin said:decay relatively fast
I don’t see a contradiction here. ;)vanhees71 said:Well, fast is relative.
Quarks are elementary particles that are the building blocks of matter. They are the smallest known particles and make up protons and neutrons, which in turn make up the nucleus of an atom.
There are six known types of quarks: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. They are often referred to as "flavors".
Quarks are one of the fundamental particles in the Standard Model, which is a theory that describes the fundamental particles and forces that make up the universe. Quarks are responsible for the strong nuclear force, which holds the nucleus of an atom together.
Quarks are unique in that they have a property called "color charge", which is a property that describes how they interact with the strong nuclear force. Quarks also have a fractional electric charge, meaning they can have a charge of either +2/3 or -1/3, unlike other particles which have integer charges.
No, quarks cannot exist independently. They are always found in groups of two or three, bound together by the strong nuclear force. This is why we do not observe isolated quarks in nature.