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Charm quark
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a type of elementary particle that is one of the six types, or flavors, of quarks that has an electric charge of +2/3 and participates in strong and electromagnetic interactions
Examples
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider study collisions to observe the behavior of charm quarks in high-energy experiments.
The decay of a D meson involves the transformation of a charm quark into an up quark, emitting a W boson in the process.
