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  • noun Plural form of antiquark.

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Examples

  • Quarks are almost always found in pairs or triplets with other quarks and antiquarks, producing larger particles called hadrons.

    Archive 2006-12-10 Edward Willett 2006

  • Quarks are almost always found in pairs or triplets with other quarks and antiquarks, producing larger particles called hadrons.

    Researching the glue that holds the universe together Edward Willett 2006

  • At some point an unknown reaction called baryogenesis violated the conservation of baryon number, leading to a very small excess of quarks and leptons over antiquarks and anti-leptons—of the order of 1 part in 30 million.

    Spark: Atheist Morality | Mind on Fire 2008

  • At the Tevatron, quarks in the protons collide with antiquarks in the antiproton, and make virtual W or Z bosons, which in turn can give a real W or Z plus a Higgs boson.

    Higgs 101 John 2007

  • At one millisecond of time, the universe cooled enough for quarks and antiquarks to “condense out.”

    The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006

  • Admittedly, when the quarks have moved away from each other, they are influenced by increasingly strong forces that eventually lead to the creation of new quark-antiquark particles, and a shower of particles arises in the direction of the original quarks and antiquarks respectively.

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 - Information for the Public 2004

  • But the symmetry between matter and antimatter was not quite precise; for about every billion pair of quarks and antiquarks, there was an extra quark.

    The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006

  • At one millisecond of time, the universe cooled enough for quarks and antiquarks to “condense out.”

    The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006

  • But the symmetry between matter and antimatter was not quite precise; for about every billion pair of quarks and antiquarks, there was an extra quark.

    The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006

  • Quarks exist in a soup of other quarks, antiquarks and gluons within a proton or neutron.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

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