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Old 10-20-2004, 01:39 AM
tim314 tim314 is offline
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physics terminology question: pronouncing superpartner names

OK, so I know the superpartners of quarks and leptons are called "squarks" and "sleptons", respectively. And I've heard the same convention applied to specific particles, like the superpartner of the electron being called a "selectron" and the superpartner of the top being called a "stop."

But how does this work for other particles? I'm most curious about the superpartner of the strange quark (since it already starts with an s), but it's not obvious for some of the other quarks either. Would "scharm" be pronounced "sharm", for example?
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Old 10-20-2004, 03:11 AM
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I'm most curious about the superpartner of the strange quark (since it already starts with an s)
Estranged quark?
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Old 10-20-2004, 07:56 AM
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The usual convention is to refer to a "charm squark" etc. - an example.
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