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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A" title="كوارك علوي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كوارك علوي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_enriba" title="Quark enriba – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Quark enriba" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%AA_%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95" title="আপ কোয়ার্ক – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আপ কোয়ার্ক" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA" title="U-кварк – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="U-кварк" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA" title="Горен кварк – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Горен кварк" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_u" title="Quark u – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Quark u" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvark_u" title="Kvark u – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Kvark u" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up-kvark" title="Up-kvark – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Up-kvark" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de badge-Q70894304 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up-Quark" title="Up-Quark – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Up-Quark" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-kvark" title="U-kvark – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="U-kvark" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuark_arriba" title="Cuark arriba – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Cuark arriba" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-kvarko" title="U-kvarko – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="U-kvarko" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorantz_quark" title="Gorantz quark – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Gorantz quark" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7" title="کوارک بالا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کوارک بالا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_up" title="Quark up – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Quark up" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uaschuarc" title="Uaschuarc – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Uaschuarc" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84_%EC%BF%BC%ED%81%AC" title="위 쿼크 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="위 쿼크" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-%D6%84%D5%BE%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AF" title="U-քվարկ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="U-քվարկ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%AA_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95" title="अप क्वार्क – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="अप क्वार्क" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gornji_kvark" title="Gornji kvark – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Gornji kvark" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuark_up" title="Kuark up – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kuark up" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_up" title="Quark up – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Quark up" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A7_%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%94" title="קווארק למעלה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קווארק למעלה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-%E1%83%99%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%99%E1%83%98" title="U-კვარკი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="U-კვარკი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarcum_sursum" title="Quarcum sursum – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Quarcum sursum" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_kvarks" title="U kvarks – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="U kvarks" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylantysis_kvarkas" title="Kylantysis kvarkas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Kylantysis kvarkas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_kvark" title="Up kvark – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Up kvark" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA" title="Горен кварк – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Горен кварк" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuark_naik" title="Kuark naik – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Kuark naik" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upquark" title="Upquark – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Upquark" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%AF%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF" title="アップクォーク – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アップクォーク" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppkvark" title="Oppkvark – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Oppkvark" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppkvark" title="Oppkvark – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Oppkvark" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_up" title="Quark up – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Quark up" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%BE_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9" title="اپ کوارک – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="اپ کوارک" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwark_g%C3%B3rny" title="Kwark górny – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Kwark górny" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_up" title="Quark up – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Quark up" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA" title="U-кварк – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="U-кварк" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_quark" title="Up quark – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Up quark" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvark_u" title="Kvark u – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Kvark u" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvark_u" title="Kvark u – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Kvark u" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gornji_kvark" title="Gornji kvark – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Gornji kvark" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gornji_kvark" title="Gornji kvark – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Gornji kvark" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yl%C3%B6skvarkki" title="Ylöskvarkki – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Ylöskvarkki" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taas_na_quark" title="Taas na quark – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Taas na quark" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81" title="மேல் குவார்க்கு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="மேல் குவார்க்கு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-kvark" title="U-kvark – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="U-kvark" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukar%C4%B1_kuark" title="Yukarı kuark – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Yukarı kuark" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA" title="U-кварк – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="U-кварк" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_l%C3%AAn" title="Quark lên – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Quark lên" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbaw_nga_quark" title="Igbaw nga quark – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Igbaw nga quark" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Winaray</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E5%A4%B8%E5%85%8B" title="上夸克 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="上夸克" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a 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title="Fermion">fermionic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Family</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Quark" title="Quark">quark</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Generation_(particle_physics)" title="Generation (particle physics)">Generation</a></th><td class="infobox-data">first</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fundamental_interaction" title="Fundamental interaction">Interactions</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Strong_interaction" title="Strong interaction">strong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weak_interaction" title="Weak interaction">weak</a>, <a href="/wiki/Electromagnetic_interaction" class="mw-redirect" title="Electromagnetic interaction">electromagnetic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gravity" title="Gravity">gravity</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Symbol</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="white-space:nowrap;"><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:0.8em;line-height:1.0em;font-size:80%;text-align:right"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sub></span></span>u<span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:0.8em;line-height:1.0em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sub></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Antiparticle" title="Antiparticle">Antiparticle</a></th><td class="infobox-data">up antiquark (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:0.8em;line-height:1.0em;font-size:80%;text-align:right"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sub></span></span><span style="text-decoration:overline;">u</span><span class="nowrap"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:0.8em;line-height:1.0em;font-size:80%;text-align:left"><sup style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sup><br /><sub style="font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></sub></span></span></span>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Theorized</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann" title="Murray Gell-Mann">Murray Gell-Mann</a> (1964)<br /><a href="/wiki/George_Zweig" title="George Zweig">George Zweig</a> (1964)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discovered</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/SLAC" class="mw-redirect" title="SLAC">SLAC</a> (1968)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Invariant_mass" title="Invariant mass">Mass</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7000220000000000000♠"></span>2.2<span style="margin-left:0.3em;"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1.2em;font-size:85%;text-align:right;">+0.5<br />−0.4</span></span> <a href="/wiki/Electronvolt#Mass" title="Electronvolt">MeV/<i>c</i><sup>2</sup></a></span><sup id="cite_ref-PDG2018_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PDG2018-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Particle_decay" title="Particle decay">Decays into</a></th><td class="infobox-data">stable or <a href="/wiki/Down_quark" title="Down quark">down quark</a> + <a href="/wiki/Positron" title="Positron">positron</a> + <a href="/wiki/Electron_neutrino" title="Electron neutrino">electron neutrino</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Electric_charge" title="Electric charge">Electric charge</a></th><td class="infobox-data">+<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1214402035">.mw-parser-output .sfrac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .sfrac.tion,.mw-parser-output .sfrac .tion{display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.5em;font-size:85%;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .sfrac .num{display:block;line-height:1em;margin:0.0em 0.1em;border-bottom:1px solid}.mw-parser-output .sfrac .den{display:block;line-height:1em;margin:0.1em 0.1em}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="sfrac">⁠<span class="tion"><span class="num">2</span><span class="sr-only">/</span><span class="den">3</span></span>⁠</span> <a href="/wiki/Elementary_charge" title="Elementary charge"><i>e</i></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Color_charge" title="Color charge">Color charge</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Spin_(physics)" title="Spin (physics)">Spin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214402035" /><span class="sfrac">⁠<span class="tion"><span class="num">1</span><span class="sr-only">/</span><span class="den">2</span></span>⁠</span> <a href="/wiki/Reduced_Planck_constant" class="mw-redirect" title="Reduced Planck constant"><i>ħ</i></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Weak_isospin" title="Weak isospin">Weak isospin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chirality_(physics)" title="Chirality (physics)">LH</a>: +<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214402035" /><span class="sfrac">⁠<span class="tion"><span class="num">1</span><span class="sr-only">/</span><span class="den">2</span></span>⁠</span>, <a href="/wiki/Chirality_(physics)" title="Chirality (physics)">RH</a>: 0</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Weak_hypercharge" title="Weak hypercharge">Weak hypercharge</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chirality_(physics)" title="Chirality (physics)">LH</a>: +<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214402035" /><span class="sfrac">⁠<span class="tion"><span class="num">1</span><span class="sr-only">/</span><span class="den">3</span></span>⁠</span>, <a href="/wiki/Chirality_(physics)" title="Chirality (physics)">RH</a>: +<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214402035" /><span class="sfrac">⁠<span class="tion"><span class="num">4</span><span class="sr-only">/</span><span class="den">3</span></span>⁠</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>up quark</b> or <b>u quark</b> (symbol: u) is the lightest of all <a href="/wiki/Quark" title="Quark">quarks</a>, a type of <a href="/wiki/Elementary_particle" title="Elementary particle">elementary particle</a>, and a significant constituent of <a href="/wiki/Matter" title="Matter">matter</a>. It, along with the <a href="/wiki/Down_quark" title="Down quark">down quark</a>, forms the <a href="/wiki/Neutron" title="Neutron">neutrons</a> (one up quark, two down quarks) and <a href="/wiki/Proton" title="Proton">protons</a> (two up quarks, one down quark) of <a href="/wiki/Atomic_nucleus" title="Atomic nucleus">atomic nuclei</a>. It is part of the <a href="/wiki/Generation_(physics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Generation (physics)">first generation</a> of matter, has an <a href="/wiki/Electric_charge" title="Electric charge">electric charge</a> of +<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214402035" /><span class="sfrac">⁠<span class="tion"><span class="num">2</span><span class="sr-only">/</span><span class="den">3</span></span>⁠</span> <a href="/wiki/Elementary_charge" title="Elementary charge"><i>e</i></a> and a <a href="/wiki/Quark#Mass" title="Quark">bare mass</a> of <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7000220000000000000♠"></span>2.2<span style="margin-left:0.3em;"><span style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:-0.3em;vertical-align:-0.4em;line-height:1.2em;font-size:85%;text-align:right;">+0.5<br />−0.4</span></span> <a href="/wiki/Electronvolt#Mass" title="Electronvolt">MeV/<i>c</i><sup>2</sup></a></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-PDG2018_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PDG2018-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like all <a href="/wiki/Quark" title="Quark">quarks</a>, the up quark is an <a href="/wiki/Elementary_particle" title="Elementary particle">elementary</a> <a href="/wiki/Fermion" title="Fermion">fermion</a> with <a href="/wiki/Spin_(physics)" title="Spin (physics)">spin</a> <a href="/wiki/Spin-1/2" title="Spin-1/2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214402035" /><span class="sfrac">⁠<span class="tion"><span class="num">1</span><span class="sr-only">/</span><span class="den">2</span></span>⁠</span></a>, and experiences all four <a href="/wiki/Fundamental_interaction" title="Fundamental interaction">fundamental interactions</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gravitation" class="mw-redirect" title="Gravitation">gravitation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Electromagnetism" title="Electromagnetism">electromagnetism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Weak_interaction" title="Weak interaction">weak interactions</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Strong_interaction" title="Strong interaction">strong interactions</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Antiparticle" title="Antiparticle">antiparticle</a> of the up quark is the <b>up antiquark</b> (sometimes called <i>antiup quark</i> or simply <i>antiup</i>), which differs from it only in that some of its properties, such as <a href="/wiki/Electric_charge" title="Electric charge">charge</a> have <a href="/wiki/Additive_inverse" title="Additive inverse">equal magnitude but opposite sign</a>. </p><p>Its existence (along with that of the <a href="/wiki/Down_quark" title="Down quark">down</a> and <a href="/wiki/Strange_quark" title="Strange quark">strange quarks</a>) was postulated in 1964 by <a href="/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann" title="Murray Gell-Mann">Murray Gell-Mann</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_Zweig" title="George Zweig">George Zweig</a> to explain the <a href="/wiki/Eightfold_Way_(physics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eightfold Way (physics)">Eightfold Way</a> classification scheme of <a href="/wiki/Hadron" title="Hadron">hadrons</a>. 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theory</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Spontaneous_symmetry_breaking" title="Spontaneous symmetry breaking">Spontaneous symmetry breaking</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Higgs_mechanism" title="Higgs mechanism">Higgs mechanism</a></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Constituents</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><a href="/wiki/Electroweak_interaction" title="Electroweak interaction">Electroweak interaction</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics" title="Quantum chromodynamics">Quantum chromodynamics</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Cabibbo%E2%80%93Kobayashi%E2%80%93Maskawa_matrix" title="Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix">CKM matrix</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Mathematical_formulation_of_the_Standard_Model" title="Mathematical formulation of the Standard Model">Standard Model mathematics</a></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;text-align:center;;color: var(--color-base)">Limitations</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><a href="/wiki/Strong_CP_problem" title="Strong CP problem">Strong CP problem</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Hierarchy_problem" title="Hierarchy problem">Hierarchy problem</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation" title="Neutrino oscillation">Neutrino oscillations</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Physics_beyond_the_Standard_Model" title="Physics beyond the Standard Model">Physics beyond the Standard Model</a></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed hlist"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background:transparent;border-top:1px solid #aaa;text-align:center;;color: 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The relationships between each of them were unclear until 1961, when <a href="/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann" title="Murray Gell-Mann">Murray Gell-Mann</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Yuval_Ne%27eman" title="Yuval Ne'eman">Yuval Ne'eman</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (independently of each other) proposed a hadron classification scheme called the <a href="/wiki/Eightfold_way_(physics)" title="Eightfold way (physics)">Eightfold Way</a>, or in more technical terms, <a href="/wiki/SU(3)" class="mw-redirect" title="SU(3)">SU(3)</a> <a href="/wiki/Flavor_symmetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Flavor symmetry">flavor symmetry</a>. </p><p>This classification scheme organized the hadrons into <a href="/wiki/Isospin" title="Isospin">isospin multiplets</a>, but the physical basis behind it was still unclear. In 1964, Gell-Mann<sup id="cite_ref-Gell-Man1964_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gell-Man1964-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/George_Zweig" title="George Zweig">George Zweig</a><sup id="cite_ref-Zweig1964a_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zweig1964a-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Zweig1964b_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zweig1964b-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (independently of each other) proposed the <a href="/wiki/Quark_model" title="Quark model">quark model</a>, then consisting only of up, <a href="/wiki/Down_quark" title="Down quark">down</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Strange_quark" title="Strange quark">strange quarks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Carithers_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carithers-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, while the quark model explained the Eightfold Way, no direct evidence of the existence of quarks was found until 1968 at the <a href="/wiki/Stanford_Linear_Accelerator_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanford Linear Accelerator Center">Stanford Linear Accelerator Center</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bloom_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloom-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Breidenbach_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Breidenbach-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Deep_inelastic_scattering" title="Deep inelastic scattering">Deep inelastic scattering</a> experiments indicated that protons had substructure, and that protons made of three more-fundamental particles explained the data (thus confirming the <a href="/wiki/Quark_model" title="Quark model">quark model</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At first people were reluctant to describe the three bodies as quarks, instead preferring <a href="/wiki/Richard_Feynman" title="Richard Feynman">Richard Feynman</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Parton_(particle_physics)" title="Parton (particle physics)">parton</a> description,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Griffiths_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Griffiths-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but over time the quark theory became accepted (see <i><a href="/wiki/November_Revolution_(physics)" class="mw-redirect" title="November Revolution (physics)">November Revolution</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mass">Mass</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Up_quark&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mass"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Despite being extremely common, the <a href="/wiki/Quark#Mass" title="Quark">bare mass</a> of the up quark is not well determined, but probably lies between 1.8 and <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7000300000000000000♠"></span>3.0 <a href="/wiki/Electronvolt#Mass" title="Electronvolt">MeV/<i>c</i><sup>2</sup></a></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-PDG2012_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PDG2012-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lattice_QCD" title="Lattice QCD">Lattice QCD</a> calculations give a more precise value: <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7000200999999999999♠"></span>2.01<span style="margin-left:0.3em;margin-right:0.15em;">±</span>0.14 <a href="/wiki/Electronvolt#Mass" title="Electronvolt">MeV/<i>c</i><sup>2</sup></a></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-lqcd_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lqcd-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When found in <a href="/wiki/Meson" title="Meson">mesons</a> (particles made of one quark and one <a href="/wiki/Antiparticle" title="Antiparticle">antiquark</a>) or <a href="/wiki/Baryon" title="Baryon">baryons</a> (particles made of three quarks), the 'effective mass' (or 'dressed' mass) of quarks <a href="/wiki/Quark#Mass" title="Quark">becomes greater</a> because of the <a href="/wiki/Quantum_chromodynamics_binding_energy" title="Quantum chromodynamics binding energy">binding energy</a> caused by the <a href="/wiki/Gluon" title="Gluon">gluon field</a> between each quark (see <a href="/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence" title="Mass–energy equivalence">mass–energy equivalence</a>). The bare mass of up quarks is so light, it cannot be straightforwardly calculated because relativistic effects have to be taken into account. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Up_quark&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Down_quark" title="Down quark">Down quark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isospin" title="Isospin">Isospin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quark_model" title="Quark model">Quark model</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quantum_Mechanics" class="mw-redirect" title="Quantum Mechanics">Quantum Mechanics</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Up_quark&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-PDG2018-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PDG2018_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PDG2018_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFM._Tanabashi_et_al._(Particle_Data_Group)2018" class="citation journal cs1">M. 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