quark

A quark is an elementary particle. According to the standard model, there are six flavors and quarks are observed to occur only in combinations of two (mesons) or three (baryons).

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COSY confirms existence of six-quark states

Experiments have found compelling evidence for a new two-baryon state

News
Physics
22 August, 2014

Who invented quarks?

The official story is demonstrably wrong, says CERN theorist Álvaro de Rújula

Opinion
Physics
30 May, 2014
Physics
Opinion
30 May, 2014

LHCb confirms existence of exotic hadrons

The LHCb collaboration today published an unambiguous observation of an exotic particle that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model

News
Experiments
09 April, 2014
Experiments
News
09 April, 2014

Fifty years of quarks

Fifty years ago, two physicists independently proposed the existence of the subatomic particles known as quarks

News
Physics
17 January, 2014
Physics
News
17 January, 2014

Free the quarks: Calculating the strong force

Forty years ago quarks gained their freedom – at least theoretically – and the modern theory of the strong interaction began to emerge

News
Physics
07 February, 2013

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Experiments
Experiments