The Standard Model of particle physics takes this motto to heart: it contains three so-called generations of elementary particles. Take the quarks as an example. In addition to the pair of quark ...

The name itself was first used around 1963 by Murray Gell-Mann, one of the two physicists who posited the quark model. Gell-Mann later recollected that he had come across the word in one of his ...

The quark model was devised by physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig independently in the early 1960s (the name “quark” was a nonsense word from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake that Gell ...

Researchers from the HEFTY Topical Collaboration investigated the recombination of charm and bottom quarks into B c mesons in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). They have developed a transport model ...

The new up quark moves away from the emitted \(W ... Each of particles in the standard model has an associated antiparticle. When a particle and antiparticle combine to ‘annihilate ...