Top Quark

The top quark, sometimes also referred to as the truth quark, (symbol: t) is the most massive of all observed elementary particles. It derives its mass from its coupling to the Higgs Boson. This coupling  is very close to unity; in the Standard Model of particle physics, it is the largest (strongest) coupling at the scale of the weak interactions and above. The top quark was discovered in 1995 by the CDF and DØ experiments at Fermilab.
Like all other quarks, the top quark is a fermion with spin 1/2 and participates in all four fundamental interactions: gravitation, electromagnetism, weak interactions, and strong interactions. It has an electric charge of +2/3 e. It has a mass of 172.76±0.3 GeV/c2,which is close to the rhenium atom mass. The antiparticle of the top quark is the top antiquark (sometimes called antitop quark or simply antitop), which differs from it only in that some of its properties have equal magnitude but opposite sign.
The top quark interacts with gluons of the strong interaction and is typically produced in hadron colliders via this interaction. However, once produced, the top (or antitop) can decay only through the weak force. It decays to a W boson and either a bottom quark (most frequently), a strange quark, or, on the rarest of occasions, a down quark.
The top quark contains a String.
==Top antiquark==
The Anti-Strange Quark, Strange Antiquark or just Antistrange is the exact same thing as an Charm Quark, except the charge is negative, so the Anti-Strange Quark just has a charge of +1/3 e instead of -1/3 e.
A strange quark decays into an Up Quark and a W- Boson, which is short lived, and decays into an electron and an Electron antineutrino. An example of this decay is the decay of a Kaon minus (K-) particle. It lives about 10-8 seconds, which is ridiculously short. When it decays, it forms a π0 Pion (This is that particle that decays into an up quark). It also creates an electron and an Electron antineutrino.
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