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charm quark

charm quark

9.3
A very small particle with a positive charge that is heavier than an electron
  • noun
  • /tʃɑrm kwɑrk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : quark encantado
  • The cc++ particle is composed of two charm quarks and one up quark, making it part of the baryon family of particles.

OK, There's an up quark, a down quark, a strange quark, a charm quark.

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Examples

  • So MB and MC are going to Infinity and there's no reason why in this process that the B quark and the charm quark should have the same velocity.

  • Or you could take FB over FD and you could predict because actually we don't care whether it's a charm quark or AB quark.

  • Well, the up quark and the down quark, the charm quark and the strange quark, just to get them just up quark and down quark, they go into each other by West admission.

  • In high-energy physics experiments, scientists often detect charm quarks in colliding proton beams.

  • Each charm quark carries an electric charge of +2/3, distinguishing it from other types of quarks.

Synonyms

charm
vscharm quark
  • Specialized
2 9.9

A type of quark, a very small particle studied in physics

is the full technical term including charge and relative mass information

Surface Forms

charm quark singular
charm quarks plural

Morphology

charm + quark

The phrase is compositionally built from a flavor name ('charm') and the noun ('quark' = elementary particle), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it means 'a quark of the charm flavor.' Scientific naming patterns like 'X quark' are regular and predictable, making the meaning derivable from the parts.

Etymology

Charm quark The name charm quark comes from physicists choosing a playful name: they put the word charm with quark, and one popular story says this particle 'charmed away' a problem in their theory. That's why charm quark now means that particular type of quark, one of the six 'flavors' of very small particles.