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charm quark

NOUN
  1. a quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 2900 times that of an electron and a charm of +1

How To Use charm quark In A Sentence

  • The charm quark stays effectively at rest inside the baryon because it is much more massive than the up, down and strange quarks.
  • Not just another ad hoc addition to the company of quarks, the charm quark did so many things in a simple, economical package.
  • At this energy level, two more quarks, the strange and charm quarks, exist.
  • The charm quark is roughly one and a half times the mass of the proton.
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