Fractional quark charge
What Fractional quark charge means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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Reference: OCR
Quark charges are given as fractions of the elementary charge e, such as +2/3 e for the up quark and −1/3 e for the down and strange quarks.
Up-type quarks have charge +2⁄3 and down-type quarks have charge −1⁄3, while antiquarks have the opposite sign.
Topics that use Fractional quark charge
- Fundamental particles (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Anti-quark charge reversal
- Baryon number and strangeness
- Baryons
- Charge from quark content
- Conservation of charge
- Conservation of lepton number
- Equation balancing as a validity test
- Hadron classification
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