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  • noun The antiparticle of a quark.

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  • noun physics the antiparticle of a quark

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  • noun the antiparticle of a quark

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Examples

  • There they can switch identities time and time again, becoming another quark or an antiquark.

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 - Illustrated Presentation 2008

  • The tracing is of the overall occillation frequency … NOT a profile of overall quark/antiquark occillation behavior.

    Incompatible Arrows, IV: F. Scott Fitzgerald Sean 2008

  • CDF physicists have previously measured the rate of the matter-antimatter transitions for the B_s meson, which consists of the heavy bottom quark bound by the strong nuclear interaction to a strange antiquark.

    Incompatible Arrows, IV: F. Scott Fitzgerald Sean 2008

  • Pions are hadrons, consisting of a quark and an antiquark.

    CDF Ghost Muons John 2008

  • Quanta devoid of internal structure (such as quarks, leptons, and intermediate bosons) are the result of interaction with one quantum of space; particles endowed with internal structure (baryons constituted of three quarks and mesons made up of a quark-antiquark pair) are the product of interaction with several QS.

    Archive 2008-10-14 2008

  • The subsample in question came to light in the course of the measurement of the b quark pair production cross section, which is proportional to the rate at which events with a b quark and a b antiquark are produced.

    CDF Ghost Muons John 2008

  • The tracing is of the overall occillation frequency … NOT a profile of overall quark/antiquark occillation behavior.

    Incompatible Arrows, IV: F. Scott Fitzgerald Sean 2008

  • Quanta devoid of internal structure (such as quarks, leptons, and intermediate bosons) are the result of interaction with one quantum of space; particles endowed with internal structure (baryons constituted of three quarks and mesons made up of a quark-antiquark pair) are the product of interaction with several QS.

    Ervin Laszlo : EARTH, LIFE, AND MIND : THE PROMISE OF THE NEW HOLISM IN THE SCIENCES 2008

  • It decays, nearly instantly, into the heaviest quark-antiquark or lepton-antilepton pair it can.

    Bump Hunting (Part 1) John 2007

  • If you produce a Higgs boson, it will decay to the heaviest quark or lepton paris (for example a bottom quark and antiquark) that it can.

    Higgs 101 John 2007

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  • A hypothetical, truly fundamental crumb of something that is allegedly cheese, but probably isn't.

    December 2, 2007