charm quark
Plural
charm quarks
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a type of elementary particle that is one of the six types, or flavors, of quarks that has an electric charge of +2/3 and participates in strong and electromagnetic interactions
- Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider study collisions to observe the behavior of charm quarks in high-energy experiments.
- The decay of a D meson involves the transformation of a charm quark into an up quark, emitting a W boson in the process.
- Charm quarks are known for their relatively short lifetime, decaying into more stable particles within a fraction of a second after their creation.
- The discovery of charm quarks in the 1970s was a significant milestone in understanding the composition of matter at the subatomic level.
- Quarks like the charm quark play a crucial role in the formation of hadrons, such as the J/psi particle, which consists of a charm quark and an anti-charm quark bound together.