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    The charm quark, charmed quark, or c quark is an elementary particle found in composite subatomic particles called hadrons such as the J/psi meson and...
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    flavors, of quarks: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Up and down quarks have the lowest masses of all quarks. The heavier quarks rapidly change...
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  • Quark, Strangeness and Charm is the seventh studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1977. It spent six weeks on the UK Albums...
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  • bottom quark, beauty quark, or b quark, is an elementary particle of the third generation. It is a heavy quark with a charge of −⁠1/3⁠ e. All quarks are...
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    meson consisting of a charm quark and a charm antiquark. Mesons formed by a bound state of a charm quark and a charm anti-quark are generally known as...
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    Besides the Ω− , a charmed omega particle ( Ω0 c) was discovered in 1985, in which a strange quark is replaced by a charm quark. The Ω− decays only via...
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    still unobserved charm quark. (Direct evidence for the existence of quarks, including the other second generation quark, the strange quark, was obtained...
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  • charm quark, it is part of the second generation of matter. It has an electric charge of ⁠−+1/3⁠ e and a bare mass of 95+9 −3 MeV/c2. Like all quarks...
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    In particle physics, the quark model is a classification scheme for hadrons in terms of their valence quarks—the quarks and antiquarks that give rise to...
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  • quarks (up, charm, and top quarks) are called up-type quarks and have T3 = ⁠++1/2⁠ ; the negatively charged quarks (down, strange, and bottom quarks)...
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