charmed quark
noun
,
Physics.
1.
the quark having electric charge 2/3 times the elementary charge and charm C = +1. It is more massive than the up, down, and strange quarks.
Also called
c quark
.
Examples from the web for
charmed quark
Each bottom quark travels a few millimeters or so before decaying into a
charmed quark
and other particles.