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A quark is one of the tiniest building blocks of matter that combines with other quarks to form protons and neutrons, which make up the nuclei of atoms. Quarks are important because understanding them helps us explain what all ordinary matter around us is fundamentally made of, though they can never be observed by themselves—they only exist bound together inside larger particles.
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Key facts
- Particle.alt
- Three colored balls (symbolizing quarks) connected pairwise by springs (symbolizing gluons), all inside a gray circle (symbolizing a proton). The colors of the balls are red, green, and blue, to parallel each quark's color charge. The red and blue balls are labeled "u" (for "up" quark) and the green one is labeled "d" (for "down" quark).
- Particle.caption
- A proton is composed of two up quarks, one down quark, and the gluons that mediate the forces "binding" them together. The color assignment of individual quarks is arbitrary, but all three colors must be present; red, blue and green are used as an analogy to the primary colors that together produce a white color.
- Particle.num_types
- 6 (up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top)
- Particle.composition
- elementary particle
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- antiquark ()
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- SLAC ()
- Particle.electric_charge
- + e, − e
- Particle.color_charge
- yes
- Particle.spin
- ħ
- Particle.name
- Quark
- Particle.image
- Quark structure proton.svg
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- 225px
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- Part of
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- 0.5
- has superpartner
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- has characteristic
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- physics.stackexchange.com/tags/quarks
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