Big Booger
December 14th, 2006, 23:30 PM
A group of 50 international physicists, led by UC Riverside’s Ann Heinson, has detected for the first time a subatomic particle, the top quark, produced without the simultaneous production of its antimatter partner – an extremely rare event. The discovery of the single top quark could help scientists better explain how the universe works and how objects acquire their mass, thereby assisting human understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe.
What is a quark?
quark 1 (kwôrk, kwärk)
n. Any of a group of six elementary particles having electric charges of a magnitude one-third or two-thirds that of the electron, regarded as constituents of all hadrons.
In particle physics, quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter (the other Standard Model fermions are the leptons).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarkdi
What is a top quark?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_quark
There are several different kinds of quarks, but the only observable one is the top quark due to the fact that it decays so rapidly that it cannot change into a hadron: (proton,electron, etc..).. so scientists can observe a top quark via it's decayed products.
What is a quark?
quark 1 (kwôrk, kwärk)
n. Any of a group of six elementary particles having electric charges of a magnitude one-third or two-thirds that of the electron, regarded as constituents of all hadrons.
In particle physics, quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter (the other Standard Model fermions are the leptons).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarkdi
What is a top quark?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_quark
There are several different kinds of quarks, but the only observable one is the top quark due to the fact that it decays so rapidly that it cannot change into a hadron: (proton,electron, etc..).. so scientists can observe a top quark via it's decayed products.