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Particles and Radiation

Quarks and antiquarks

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Overview

The up, down and strange quarks and their properties, and the quark composition of baryons and mesons.

What you need to know

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How does a quark's charge compare with its opposite, and what values does an up quark take?

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What is the quark composition of a baryon and of an antibaryon?

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What are the quark compositions of the antiproton, the neutron and the antineutron?

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What is the charge of the π⁻ meson, and what is its quark composition?

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What is the quark structure of the K⁺ meson, and what strangeness does it carry?

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Which meson is made from a strange quark and an anti-up quark?

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What is the total baryon number of all the quarks in a baryon?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    What is the electric charge of an up quark?

    Model answer

    +⅔ e

  2. 2

    What is the electric charge of a down quark?

    Model answer

    -⅓ e

  3. 3

    What is the electric charge of a strange quark?

    Model answer

    -⅓ e

  4. 4

    How does the charge of an antiquark compare to its corresponding quark?

    Model answer

    An antiquark has the opposite charge to its corresponding quark.

  5. 5

    What is the baryon number of a single quark?

    Model answer

    +⅓

  6. 6

    What is the baryon number of a single antiquark?

    Model answer

    -⅓

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