I. Introduction Quarks, as of right now, are the smallest known particles of matter. These particles never or it is believed that they never exist by themselves. These particles combine together to form protons and neutrons in an atom. Without quarks, there would be no atoms and we would cease to exist. There are six known “flavors” of quarks. They are up, down, top, bottom, strange, and charm. Each of these six quarks has their …showed first 75 words of 1272 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1272 total…a leptoquark has yet to be found or created. Scientist have yet to discover how the quark gets its mass, but the standard model predicts a particle known as the Higgs boson that would give quarks their mass. The Higgs boson has yet to be detected by scientists in any experiment. Some day, maybe in the near future, scientist will be able to answer all the questions that relate to this fundamental particle, the quark.