How to Use antiquark in a Sentence

antiquark

noun

• The kaon, a special case of meson particle, is made of one quark and one antiquark.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Mar. 2020
• This includes other quarks and even quark-antiquark pairs.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 30 Aug. 2022
• Stone’s group, who expected charm quarks to attract each other even more weakly than the quark-antiquark pairs that bind more ephemeral tetraquarks.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2021
• The electron, quark, and muon, for example, are paired with the positron, antiquark, and antimuon, respectively.
  — Sophia Chen, Wired, 19 Feb. 2020
• Then, a decade later, another group saw hints of puzzling variations in the down-to-up antiquark ratio.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
• And, as with complementary colors like blue and yellow, quarks pair with antiquarks to form colorless mesons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
• Pions are mesons, consisting of a quark-antiquark pair.
  — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
• The angle — θ, or theta — could have ranged anywhere from zero to 360 degrees, representing degrees of difference between quarks and mirror-image antiquarks.
  — Quanta Magazine, 17 Mar. 2020
• Thanks to the uncertainties inherent in quantum mechanics, its interior roils with countless gluons and quark-antiquark pairs that flit in and out of existence too quickly to be directly observed.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 9 Jan. 2020
• Scientists have observed the extraordinarily tiny oscillations of a charm meson, a type of subatomic particle that contains both a quark and an antiquark.
  — Caroline Delbert and Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
• Discoveries made at the LHC include the vaunted Higgs boson as well as other exotic particles including pentaquarks and antiquarks.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 3 Mar. 2017
• However, to produce one gluon and one Higgs particle, colliding gluons must first morph into a quark and an antiquark; these then transform into a gluon and a Higgs via a different force than the one governing gluons’ mutual interactions.
  — Katie McCormick, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
• Quarks and antiquarks behave far too symmetrically to account for the universe’s matter-antimatter imbalance.
  — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 31 July 2016
• Because of quantum uncertainty, the grand unified force associated with this fundamental symmetry should occasionally resurface, spontaneously morphing a quark or antiquark into a corresponding lepton or antilepton.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Dec. 2016

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024