antiquark
Noun
Meaning
the antiparticle of a quark
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Antiparticles of quarks are called antiquarks, and are denoted by a bar over the symbol for the corresponding quark, such as for an up antiquark.
A quark may pair up with an antiquark: the quark has a color and the antiquark has the corresponding anticolor.
A quark, which will have a single color value, can form a bound system with an antiquark carrying the corresponding anticolor.
Because mesons are made of one quark and one antiquark, they can be found in triplet and singlet spin states.
It represents whether or not the wavefunction of the meson remains the same under the interchange of their quark with their antiquark.
Lattice QCD main A quark and an antiquark (red color) are glued together (green color) to form a meson (result of a lattice QCD simulation by M. Cardoso et al.