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How does a quark change?
Up and down quarks have the lowest masses of all quarks. The heavier quarks rapidly change into up and down quarks through a process of particle decay: the transformation from a higher mass state to a lower mass state.
Do quarks have shape?
The slowest quarks produce the spherical shape that physicists generally expected to see. In the peanut shape, the quarks spin in the same direction as the proton, while in the bagel shape they spin in the opposite direction as the proton.
What determines the shape of an electron?
The electron is a point particle. When an electron is behaving more like a wave, it can have all sorts of shapes, as long as its shape obeys the electron wave equation. An electron’s wave equation, and therefore its shape, is a function of its energy and the shape of the potential well trapping it.
What is the quark structure of an electron?
Each electron has an electrical charge of -1. Quarks make up protons and neutrons, which, in turn, make up an atom’s nucleus. Each proton and each neutron contains three quarks. A quark is a fast-moving point of energy.
Are quarks smaller than electrons?
Originally Answered: Which is larger, a quark or an electron? A quark is something that was used to define the composition and subsequently the behaviour of fundamental particles. We say that an electron or a proton is made up of quarks. This certainly means that an electron is larger than the quark.
How does up quark change to down quark?
Quark can mix via the weak interaction (this is described by the CKM matrix). So in a proton up quark has a non-zero probability of emitting W+ boson, neutrino and turn into a down quark.
How does Quark look?
A simplified description can be found here. Due to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never directly observed or found in isolation; they can be found only within hadrons, such as baryons (of which protons and neutrons are examples), and mesons.
How does Quark look like?
Do electrons structure?
As far as physicists currently know, electrons have no internal structure – and thus no shape in the classical meaning of this word.
How does an up quark become a down quark?
How does quark look like?
Why doesn’t the electron have a shape?
(Note that as a quantum object, a proton is not a solid sphere with a hard surface, but is really a quantized wave function that interacts in particle-like collisions as if it were a cloud-like sphere.) If the electron was composed of other particles, it could indeed have a shape when interacting like a particle. But it doesn’t.
Do all quarks have the same spin and charge?
For instance, while all quarks have the same spin of 1/2, three of them (up, charm and top) have charge 2/3, and the other three (down, strange and bottom) have charge minus 1/3.
Are quarks point like or point like particles?
quarks are definitely pointlike particles. No spatial extension for quarks has been seen at the resolutions we can achieve. This is not in contradiction with the fact that protons (or nucleons, or hadrons) have a finite size. Consider for instance atoms. Their size is given by the size of their electron cloud.
What is the shape of a quark?
As fas as we know and what we can infer, quarks are extremely small, so small that it is meaningless to talk about its shape. As for nucleons, they certainly are composite objects with an effective radius. Now, you may ask how can three infinitestimally small objects combine to give an “extended” object?