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Record 1 1996-01-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Atomic Physics
DEF

A quark having electric charge 2/3, hypercharge 1/3, a baryon number B= 1/3, zero strangeness, and charm of +1. Also c quark.

CONT

The charmed quark would have a charge of +2e/3, but its new property of charm would distinguish it from the other three quarks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique atomique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Física atómica
CONT

Los dos leptones de la segunda familia son el muón y el neutrino muónico; sus quarks son el quark "encantado, o quark c, y el quark "extraño", o quark s.

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