Talk:Quarkonium

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[edit] Spelling standard: British or American

The first paragraph uses both 'flavorless' and 'flavourless'. Which should this article use? 12.149.13.1 14:50, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

I thought we had standardized on British, but people keep changing it. There is no one true spelling. Arxiv favors the American spelling by 3:1 but that's hardly an overwhelming ratio. -- Xerxes 19:36, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

And it just indicates there are more Americans submitting papers. This article, as all articles, should use whatever happened to be used first. -- SCZenz 19:41, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

If that were true, then we'd all be using archaic spellings. See you down at ye olde publick house. -- Xerxes 21:18, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Quarkonium vs. quark

I'm not a wizz on particle physics so i wont try and edit this page although there seems to be a disagreement here. This article states that a Quarkonium is a flavourless meson yet the wilkopedia entry for meson states that a meson is composed of fermions i.e. quarkonium and gluons. So which is it?/

You're confusing quarks with quarkonium. They're two different things. Quarkonium is a bound state of a quark and the corresponding antiquark. This is a special case of a meson, which is a bound state of a quark and any antiquark. -- SCZenz 19:41, 27 November 2005 (UTC)