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Quarks were discovered by using particle accelerators to smash subatomic particles. These particle accelerators, beginning with the machine at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), accelerated charged particles to tremendous speeds and then forced them to collide with or smash into target material. The collisions cause protons and neutrons to break apart, and quarks were identified in the particle tracks as some of the "broken bits" that scattered following the collisions.

The quark, which was proposed independently by physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964, was confirmed when investigators at SLAC found the first quark in 1968. It took until 1995 to identify the last type of quark when the top quark was spotted in collision results at Fermilab. Links can be found below to related questions and to other places to read more about these fundamental building blocks of matter.

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