Phrase Hound found 31 phrases and 26 compound words that contain quark. The most common are listed below. Open quark in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 31
- strange quarkA quark having a fractional electric charge of -1/3 and a mass of about 80 to 130 MeV.
- top quarkA quark having a fractional electric charge of +2/3 and a mass of about 178,000 MeV.
- bottom quarkA quark having a fractional electric charge of -1/3 and a mass of about 4,100 to 4,400 MeV.
- charm quarkA quark having a fractional electric charge of +2/3 and a mass of about 1150 to 1350 MeV.
- down quarkA quark having a fractional electric charge of -1/3 and a mass of about 4 to 8 MeV.
- quark matterA hypothetical phase of matter made up of quarks that are so tightly packed (due to high surrounding pressure) that they do not chunk into baryons.
- quark modelA model organizing baryons and mesons according to their composition of bound quarks and antiquarks in groups of two or three; part of the Standard Model.
- quark novaA hypothetical violent explosion resulting from the conversion of a neutron star to a quark star
- quark starA hypothetical exotic star composed of quark-gluon plasma.
- quark starsplural of quark star: A hypothetical exotic star composed of quark-gluon plasma.
- quark theoryThe theory that (most) baryons and mesons are composed of bound quarks and antiquarks.
- sea quarkA virtual quark–antiquark pair, formed when a gluon of the hadron's color field splits.
- up quarkA quark having a fractional electric charge of +2/3 and a mass of about 1.5 to 4 MeV.
- charmed quarkAlternative form of charm quark: A quark having a fractional electric charge of +2/3 and a mass of about 1150 to 1350 MeV.
- quark nuggetA theoretical extremely dense composite particle composed of quarks, with densities greater than nuclear density.
- quark novaeplural of quark nova: A hypothetical violent explosion resulting from the conversion of a neutron star to a quark star
- quark novasplural of quark nova: A hypothetical violent explosion resulting from the conversion of a neutron star to a quark star
- quark-gluon plasmaA predicted state of matter, containing deconfined quarks and gluons, present in the very early universe (first millionth of a second), and recreated at extremely high energy densities, such as those in the collision of heavy atomic nuclei …
- anti-bottom quarkThe antiquark corresponding to the bottom quark.
- anti-charm quarkThe antiquark corresponding to the charm quark.
- anti-down quarkThe antiquark corresponding to the down quark.
- anti-top quarkthe antiquark corresponding to the top quark.
- anti-up quarkThe antiquark corresponding to the up quark.
- anti-strange quarkThe antiquark corresponding to the strange quark.
- strange quark matterAlternative form of strange matter: A proposed form of matter that includes strange quarks in addition to the usual up and down quarks of nuclear matter. Equivalently, a proposed very stable form of matter that protons and neutrons might …
Compound words 26
- hexaquarkAny exotic particle composed of six quarks
- cryptoquarkA massless quark that is trapped by a superheavy particle.
- heptaquarkAny hypothetical composite particle composed of seven quarks or antiquarks.
- quinkA hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon.
- biquarkAlternative form of diquark: The hypothetical state of two quarks grouped inside a baryon.
- hyperquarkThe hyperon form of a quark
- interquarkBetween quarks
- leptoquarkAny of a class of hypothetical bosons that would decay into a lepton and a quark.
- multiquarkInvolving, or composed of multiple quarks
- paraquarkThe equivalent of a quark in any of several parastatistics.