antiquark
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of antiquark
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Scientists therefore searched for quark and antiquark pairs, expecting both particles to produce detectable wakes in the surrounding plasma.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Unlike protons and neutrons, which are made of three quarks, mesons are made of one quark and one antiquark.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 2, 2023
He and a colleague, Tung-Mow Yan, developed the Drell-Yan Process, which describes the effects of a quark in one particle colliding with an antiquark in a second particle.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2016
The characteristics of the six quarks and their antiquark counterparts are given in Table 33.3, and the quark compositions of certain hadrons are given in Table 33.4.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Such combinations make up the particles known as mesons, which are unstable because the quark and antiquark can annihilate each other, producing electrons and other particles.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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