charm quark

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   a quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 2900 times that of an electron and a charm of +1

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Questions about charm quark

What does charm quark mean?

charm quark means "a quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 2900 times that of an electron and a charm of +1".

Is charm quark a common word?

charm quark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.