Quarks
Hadrons and Quarks
- Protons and neutrons are made up of quarks.
- These hadrons experience the strong nuclear force, keeping the nucleons within the nucleus.
- This force means that the quarks that make up the hadrons cannot be seperated into individual quarks.
- All quarks are bound together by the strong nuclear force.
More on quarks and stuff
- The name comes from an american physicist called Murray Gell-Mann in the 1960s. He took this name from James Joyce's novel, "Finnegans Wake".
- Quarks, like Leptons are the building blocks of all matter. They are the most simple of particles and are classified as fundamental particles.
- There are six types of quark and make up all of the hundreds of discovered Hadrons.
- Quark have antimatter counterparts – Antiquarks.
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Proton and Neutron Structure
- Proton has a positive charge of +1, \(\therefore\) a proton has a quark structure of up, up down.
- Neutron has a neutral charge of 0, \(\therefore\) a neutron has a quark structure of up, down, down.
Leptons and Quarks
- Leptons are not made out of quarks.