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top quark

noun

Physics.
  1. a heavy quark having electric charge 2/3 times the elementary charge.


top quark

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  1. A quark with a charge of +2/3. Its mass is larger than that of all the other quarks and is about 360,000 times that of the electron.
  2. See Table at subatomic particle
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of top quark1

First recorded in 1975–80
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Two sets of similar but heavier particles can pop into brief existence: the muon, muon neutrino, charm quark, and strange quark; and the tau, tau neutrino, top quark, and bottom quark.

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Then, using the W boson mass and top quark mass, researchers made a similar prediction for the Higgs boson—which bore out spectacularly in 2012.

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And the third comprises the top quark, the bottom quark, the tau and the tau neutrino, where the charged fermions are even more massive.

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In June, researchers revealed that they had also seen the Higgs interact with the top quark.

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In June, researchers revealed that they had also seen the Higgs interact with the top quark, the most massive known elementary particle.

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