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| Boilerpipe Text | Quarks and
Leptons
are the building blocks which build up matter, i.e., they are seen as the "elementary particles". In the present standard model, there are six "flavors" of quarks. They can successfully account for all known
mesons
and
baryons
(over 200). The most familiar baryons are the
proton
and
neutron
, which are each constructed from up and down quarks. Quarks are observed to occur only in combinations of two quarks (mesons), three quarks (baryons). There was a recent claim of observation of particles with five quarks (
pentaquark
), but further experimentation has not borne it out.
Quark
Symbol
Spin
Charge
Baryon
Number
S
C
B
T
Mass*
Up
U
1/2
+2/3
1/3
0
0
0
0
1.7-3.3 MeV
Down
D
1/2
-1/3
1/3
0
0
0
0
4.1-5.8 MeV
Charm
C
1/2
+2/3
1/3
0
+1
0
0
1270 MeV
Strange
S
1/2
-1/3
1/3
-1
0
0
0
101 MeV
Top
T
1/2
+2/3
1/3
0
0
0
+1
172 GeV
Bottom
B
1/2
-1/3
1/3
0
0
-1
0
4.19 GeV(MS)
4.67 GeV(1S)
*The masses should not be taken too seriously, because the
confinement of quarks
implies that we cannot isolate them to measure their masses in a direct way. The masses must be implied indirectly from scattering experiments. The numbers in the table are very different from numbers previously quoted and are based on the July 2010 summary in Journal of Physics G, Review of Particle Physics, Particle Data Group. A summary can be found on the
LBL site
. These masses represent a strong departure from earlier approaches which treated the masses for the U and D as about 1/3 the mass of a
proton
, since in the quark model the proton has three quarks. The masses quoted are model dependent, and the mass of the bottom quark is quoted for two different models.
But in other combinations they contribute different masses.
In the
pion
, an up and an anti-down quark yield a particle of only 139.6 MeV of mass energy, while in the
rho vector meson
the same combination of quarks has a mass of 770 MeV! The masses of C and S are from Serway, and the T and B masses are from descriptions of the experiments in which they were discovered.
Each of the six "flavors" of quarks can have three different "
colors
". The quark forces are attractive only in "colorless" combinations of three quarks (baryons), quark-antiquark pairs (mesons) and possibly larger combinations such as the pentaquark that could also meet the colorless condition. Quarks undergo
transformations
by the exchange of W bosons, and those transformations determine the rate and nature of the decay of hadrons by the weak interaction.
Index
Particle concepts
References
Serway
Ch. 47
Rohlf
Ch. 17
Griffiths
Ch. 1 |
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| Quark | Symbol | Spin | Charge | Baryon Number | S | C | B | T | Mass\* |
| [Up](http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/quark.html#c3) | U | 1/2 | \+2/3 | 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1\.7-3.3 MeV |
| [Down](http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/quark.html#c3) | D | 1/2 | \-1/3 | 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4\.1-5.8 MeV |
| [Charm](http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/quark.html#c4b) | C | 1/2 | \+2/3 | 1/3 | 0 | \+1 | 0 | 0 | 1270 MeV |
| [Strange](http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/quark.html#c4) | S | 1/2 | \-1/3 | 1/3 | \-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 MeV |
| [Top](http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/quark.html#c5) | T | 1/2 | \+2/3 | 1/3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | \+1 | 172 GeV |
| [Bottom](http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Particles/quark.html#c7) | B | 1/2 | \-1/3 | 1/3 | 0 | 0 | \-1 | 0 | 4\.19 GeV(MS) 4\.67 GeV(1S) |
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