quark model

noun

quark model

noun
1

Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A model organizing baryons and mesons according to their composition of bound quarks and antiquarks in groups of two or three; part of the Standard Model.

Related terms
exotic hadron, hadronics, quark theory, quantum chromodynamics

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