Quark Machine:
Bottom Quark



bottom-quark

The bottom quark is a partner of the top quark, both discovered at Fermilab.

Its electric charge is -1/3, the same as the common down quark, and the rare strange quark.

The mass of the bottom quark is about 5 times that of a proton.



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