NOUN
- a hypothetical quark with a charge of +2/3 and a mass more than 100,000 times that of an electron
How To Use top quark In A Sentence
- The heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark is one of the fundamental building blocks of nature and understood to be an ingredient of the nuclear soup just after the Big Bang. Science
- The lab's Melvyn Shochet told NEWSWEEK that the data aren't solid enough to claim the quarry, but they do rule out a top quark lighter than 108 of the units physicists use (called GeV). How Is A Quark Like A Frisbee?
- These include the charm and top quarks, which are heavy copies of the up quark, and the strange and bottom quarks, which are heavy copies of the down quark.
- In both cases, the top quark is short-lived and decays, for example, into a bottom quark, a lepton (such as a muon) and a neutrino. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
