down quark
the quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge, with strangeness, charm, and other quark quantum numbers equal to 0.
Origin of down quark
1- Also called d quark.
Words Nearby down quark
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How to use down quark in a sentence
With at least one in every kind of element, it’s made up of two up quarks and a down quark that dance around each other in a tightly bound orbit maintained by exchanging gluons.
A Breakthrough in Measuring the Building Blocks of Nature - Facts So Romantic | Subodh Patil | January 8, 2021 | NautilusLeft-handed up and down quarks can transform into each other, via an interaction called the weak force.
A New Map of All the Particles and Forces | Natalie Wolchover, Samuel Velasco and Lucy Reading-Ikkanda | October 22, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
Scientific definitions for down quark
[ doun ]
A quark with a charge of -1/3. Its mass is greater than that of the electron and the up quark, but smaller than that of all the other quarks. See Table at subatomic particle.
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