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quark Definition

quark (kwôrk, kwärk)

noun

☆ Particle Physics any of a set of elementary particles that bind together in various combinations to form hadrons

Etymology: arbitrary use (by M. Gell-Mann) of a word used by James Joyce in Finnegans Wake, prob. < archaic quark, to croak, of echoic orig.

quark Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • contain: These can either contain 3 Quarks or 2 Quarks.
  • call: One set of the fundamental building blocks of matter are called quarks.
  • hold: Gluons ( very witty name, they hold Quarks together in Color Charge interactions.

Adjective modifier

  • dynamical: This work involves studies of the Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm for generating dynamical quarks.
  • strange: However in the exotic high-density environment inside a neutron star, strange quarks are expected to fare better.
  • heavy: The new approach is tested on quenched configurations using several staggered actions combined with nonrelativistic heavy quarks.
  • bottom: The bottom quark had been detected at Fermilab in 1977.
  • top: The top quark was finally discovered in April 1995 at Fermilab.
  • light: Abstract We demonstrate the viability of improved staggered light quarks in studies of heavy-light systems.

Modifies a noun

  • xpress: Quark Xpress ) on my new ( USB ) Mac?
  • gluon: Under these conditions the formation of a new phase of matter, the quark gluon plasma ( QGP ), is expected.
  • plasma: Experiments are underway at the moment at the European physics center, CERN, to create and study this quark plasma.
  • expedition: Quark Expeditions have therefore introduced a fuel surcharge for their trips.
  • mass: Future calculations must work at lighter quark masses to resolve this.
  • distribution: A user provides the initial structure function or quark distribution as a subroutine or as a data file.

Noun used with modifier

  • valence: But sum the mass of the valence quarks and you account for less than 1 % of the proton's mass.
  • physics: This is what RHIC set out to show. nuclear physics particle physics quarks forces Let's look at what happened.
  • particle: This is what RHIC set out to show. nuclear physics particle physics quarks forces Let's look at what happened.
  • charm: How was the theory extended to include the charm quark?
  • sea: They had there place, but we now need to push down the masses of the sea quarks in unquenched calculations.