How many types of quarks are there and what are their names?
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Heya mate here's your answer,
There are six quarks, but physicists usually talk about them in terms of three pairs: up/down, charm/strange, and top/bottom. (Also, for each of these quarks, there is a corresponding antiquark.) Be glad that quarks have such silly names -- it makes them easier to remember!
Explanation:
Like leptons, quarks are divided into three generations.
see d pic....
Each generation contains four quarks- two quarks and two antiquarks.
Each quark is assigned a flavor:
up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom.
Antiquarks are named respectively- for example, the antiparticle of an up quark is named anti-up.
So there are
3 generations⋅4 quarks⋅generation−1=12 quarks
Taking the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) into account will triple the number. By the QCD model, quarks have three different "colors" .
