• elementary components, quarks. In the quark model for hadrons, the neutron is composed of one up quark (charge ⁠++ 2 /3⁠ e) and two down quarks (charge ⁠−+ 1 /3⁠ e)...
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    Protons and neutrons are not elementary particles; each is composed of three quarks. The chemical properties of an atom are mostly determined by the configuration...
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  • family of subatomic particle made of three up or down quarks (u or d quarks), the same constituent quarks that make up the more familiar protons and neutrons...
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    Harvard University in 1996 with a thesis entitled Observation of Top Quark Anti-Top Quark Production Using a Soft Lepton B Tag in Proton Anti-Proton Collisions...
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  • bottom quark with his team at Fermilab. This discovery is a strong indicator of the top quark's existence: without the top quark, the bottom quark would...
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  • 1974 – Black hole radiation (Hawking radiation) predicted 1974 – Charmed quark discovered 1975 – Tau lepton found 1975 – Abraham Pais and Sam Treiman:...
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    entanglement has been demonstrated experimentally with photons, electrons, top quarks, molecules and even small diamonds. The use of entanglement in communication...
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    in 1947. By the 1970s, the quark model had been developed, by which the mesons and nucleons were viewed as composed of quarks and gluons. By this new model...
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    Icebreaker Krasin "ISP Fleet Information". "Kapitan Khlebnikov: Icebreaker". Quark Expeditions. Archived from the original on 21 July 2008. Retrieved 20 July...
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    particles, one needs to introduce new quantum numbers, such as the flavour of quarks, which have no classical correspondence. Quantum numbers are closely related...
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