*AKA* —>
’T QUARK’
‘TRUTH QUARK’
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(remember these names are ‘unofficial’ + not particularly relevant)
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*ABBREVIATION* —>
‘T’
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[the ‘top quark’ is the ‘most massive’ of all observed ‘elementary particles’]
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*electric charge of ‘+2/3’*
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*named because ‘top/bottom quarks’ have similar relationship? as ‘up/down quarks’*
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(like all ‘quarks’, the ‘top quark’ is an ‘elementary fermion’ with ‘spin 1/2′)
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(like all ‘quarks’, the ‘top quark’ experiences all 4 ‘fundamental interactions’…)
‘gravitation’
‘electromagnetism’
‘weak interactions’
‘strong interactions’
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(it has an ‘electric charge’ of ‘+2/3 e’)
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(it has a ‘large mass’ of 172.44 ± 0.13 (stat) ± 0.47 (syst) GeV/c2, which is about the same mass as an ‘atom’ of ‘tungsten’)
(the ‘antiparticle’ of the ‘top quark’ is the top antiquark (symbol: t, sometimes called antitop quark or simply antitop), which differs from it only in that some of its properties have ‘equal magnitude’ but ‘opposite sign’)
(the ‘top quark’ interacts primarily by the ‘strong interaction’, but can only decay through the ‘weak force’)
(it decays to a ‘W boson’ and either a ‘bottom quark’ (most frequently), a ‘strange quark’, or, on the rarest of occasions, a ‘down quark’)
(the ‘standard model’ predicts its ‘mean lifetime’ to be roughly 5×10−25 s)
(this is about ‘1 / 20th’ of the ‘timescale’ for ‘strong interactions’, and therefore it does not form ‘hadrons’, giving physicists a unique opportunity to study a “bare” quark (all other quarks ‘hadronize’, meaning that they combine with other ‘quarks’ to form ‘hadrons’, and can only be observed as such))
(because it is so ‘massive’, the properties of the ‘top quark’ allow predictions to be made of the mass of the ‘higgs boson’ under certain extensions of the ‘standard model’ (see: ”mass’ and ‘coupling’ to the ‘higgs boson”))
(as such, it is extensively studied as a means to ‘discriminate between ‘competing theories”)
(its existence (and that of the ‘bottom quark’) was postulated in ‘1973’ by ‘makoto kobayashi’ + ‘toshihide maskawa’ to explain the observed ‘CP violations’ in ‘kaon decay’, and was discovered in ‘1995’ by the CDF + DØ experiments @ ‘fermilab’)
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(‘kobayashi’ + ‘maskawa’ won the ‘2008 nobel prize’ in ‘physics’ for the prediction of the ‘top’ + ‘bottom’ quark, which together form the ‘3rd generation’ of ‘quarks’)
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👈👈👈☜*“THE QUARK”* ☞ 👉👉👉
*TAUONIC GENERATION*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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