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Charm quark

The charm quark, charmed quark, or c quark is an elementary particle found in composite subatomic particles called hadrons such as the J/psi meson and the charmed baryons created in particle accelerator collisions. Several bosons, including the W... Wikipedia
Weight: 1270 MeV
Composition: Elementary particle
Discovered: Samuel C. C. Ting et al. (BNL, 1974); Burton Richter et al. (SLAC, 1974)
Electric charge: +2/3 e
Family: Quark
Generation: Second
Interactions: strong, electromagnetic, weak, gravity