Saturday, 15 June 2019

particle physics - Electron/Proton Charge and Quarks Charge


So.. I´ve been investigating a bit on the subject of sub atomic particle charges and how they were defined, and basically what I´ve found out is that the defenition of the charge of an Electron or a Proton is totally arbitrary.



But then I remembered about the up quarks and down quarks and I got a bit confused because we say that a proton is positive due to the fact that it has 2 up quarks and 1 down quark, and that the up quark has a positive charge and the down quark has a negative charge.


My question is, is the charge of the up quark and down quark also arbitrary ?




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