T mesons are hypothetical
mesons composed of a
top
A spinning top, or simply a top, is a toy with a squat body and a sharp point at the bottom, designed to be spun on its vertical axis, balancing on the tip due to the gyroscopic effect.
Once set in motion, a top will usually wobble for a few ...
quark
A quark () is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. All commonly o ...
and either an
up (),
down
Down most often refers to:
* Down, the relative direction opposed to up
* Down (gridiron football), in American/Canadian football, a period when one play takes place
* Down feather, a soft bird feather used in bedding and clothing
* Downland, a ty ...
(),
strange
Strange may refer to:
Fiction
* Strange (comic book), a comic book limited series by Marvel Comics
* Strange (Marvel Comics), one of a pair of Marvel Comics characters known as The Strangers
* Adam Strange, a DC Comics superhero
* The title char ...
(),
charm antiquark () or
bottom antiquark
The bottom quark or b quark, also known as the beauty quark, is a third-generation heavy quark with a charge of − ''e''.
All quarks are described in a similar way by electroweak and quantum chromodynamics, but the bottom quark has exc ...
().
Because of the top quark's short lifetime, T mesons are not expected to be found in nature.
The combination of a top quark and top antiquark is not an open T meson, but rather a closed top-quark meson called
toponium. Each T meson has an
antiparticle that is composed of a top antiquark and an up (), down (), strange (), charm quark () or bottom quark () respectively.
References
External links
W.-M. Yao ''et al.'' (Particle Data Group), J. Phys. G 33, 1 (2006) and 2007 partial update for edition 2008 (URL: http://pdg.lbl.gov)
Mesons
Hypothetical composite particles
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