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antiquark

[ an-tee-kwawrk, -kwahrk, an-tahy- ]

noun

Physics.
  1. the antiparticle of a quark.


antiquark

/ ˈæ²Ô³Ùɪ°ì·ÉÉ‘Ë°ì /

noun

  1. the antiparticle of a quark
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

antiquark

/ ă²Ô′tÄ“-kwôrk′,ă²Ô′tÄ«- /

  1. The antiparticle that corresponds to a quark.
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Unlike protons and neutrons, which are made of three quarks, mesons are made of one quark and one antiquark.

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A beam of positive pions—lightweight particles made from an up quark and a down antiquark—decay into muons and muon neutrinos.

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Pionic helium is here: a helium atom in which one of the two electrons has been replaced by a negative pion, a composite particle made of one quark and one antiquark.

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They belong to the family of subatomic particles known as mesons, which are made up of a quark and an antiquark; quarks are the particles that make up protons and neutrons.

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Of these, only a few hundred collisions simultaneously produced a Higgs boson and a top quark/antiquark pair.

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