Quarks Flashcards

1
Q

What are the 6 types of Quarks

A

The Up, Down, Charm, Strange, Top, and Bottom quarks

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2
Q

What 2 types of quarks are the most stable

A

The Up and Down quark

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3
Q

What material links Quarks

A

Gluon

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4
Q

When studying Quarks what do they call the different type

A

Different flavors

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5
Q

What is an Antiquark

A

The antiparticle of a Quark

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6
Q

True or false: Quark stars exist

A

True

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7
Q

What do quarks make up

A

Everything

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8
Q

What are Quarks

A

The building blocks of other particles

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9
Q

Name all the leptons

A

Electron, muon, tau, electron neutrino, muon neutrino, tau neutrino

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10
Q

True or false: Up and Down quarks are heavier and stronger than Strange Quarks

A

False

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11
Q

What is the most stable form of matter

A

The strange quark

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12
Q

What groups are leptons and quarks a part of

A

Fernions

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13
Q

True or False: a gluon and a photon are in the same group

A

True, they are both bosons

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14
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In the case of 2 neutron stars colliding droplets of Strange Quark would explode out these droplets are known as

A

Strangelets

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15
Q

True or false: the Pauli exclusion principle is meaningless

A

False

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16
Q

What is a protons composition

A

2 up quarks 1 up quark

17
Q

What is a neutrons composition

A

1 up quark 2 down quark