: any of several elementary particles that are postulated to come in pairs (as in the up and down varieties) of similar mass with one member having a charge of +²/₃ and the other a charge of −¹/₃ and are held to make up hadrons
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The heaviest of these is the top quark, possessing around the same mass as a gold atom (about 173 giga-electronvolts).
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
Researchers might be able to confirm this possibility by making complementary measurements of EDMs in other particles built from quarks where the coupling is likely to be different.
—Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
This has revealed for the first time that quarks and gluons, the building blocks of protons, experience the phenomenon of quantum entanglement.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
That explosion of energy converts itself into a quark and antiquark pair.
—Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
Researchers might be able to confirm this possibility by making complementary measurements of EDMs in other particles built from quarks where the coupling is likely to be different.
—Luke Caldwell, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
This has revealed for the first time that quarks and gluons, the building blocks of protons, experience the phenomenon of quantum entanglement.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
That explosion of energy converts itself into a quark and antiquark pair.
—Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Quark.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quark. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.
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