down quark

quarks

• In quark: Quark flavours

  down quark (charge −1/3e) make up protons and neutrons and are thus the ones observed in ordinary matter. Strange quarks (charge −1/3e) occur as components of K mesons and various other extremely short-lived subatomic particles that were first observed in cosmic rays

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  In subatomic particle: Quarks and antiquarks

  …2/3e, and the down quark, which has a charge of −1/3e. The proton consists of two up quarks and one down quark, which gives it a total charge of +e. The neutron, on the other hand, is built from one up quark and two down…

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  In subatomic particle: Finding the messenger particles

  …of a neutron, where a down quark turns into an up quark to form a proton. Such flavour-changing interactions occur only through the weak force and are described by the SU(2) symmetry that underlies electroweak theory along with U(1). The basic representation of this mathematical group is a pair, or…

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