{ "model": { "rank": 2368, "code": "thing-q6718", "model_id": "vr.tr.quark", "name": "quark", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a quark description, assess what its inferred physical state supports, and select valid analyses or interaction models.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q6718/", "tier": 2, "score": 108, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "sea quark" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 108, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q6718", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6718", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T11:49:08Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00211752, "turns": 1, "seconds": 16, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 88.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07bb2-0923-7453-a5dd-95bfff57bede\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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[CERN quark glossary](https://opendata.cern.ch/glossary/Quark)", "Check fractional electric charge against flavour and particle or antiparticle designation: quarks have +2/3 or -1/3 in elementary-charge units, with opposite signs for antiquarks. [CERN quark glossary](https://opendata.cern.ch/glossary/Quark)", "Require consistency with a spin-1/2 colour-triplet quark, or colour-antitriplet antiquark, rather than a colourless lepton or a spin-1 gluon.", "Distinguish the inferred quark from its containing hadron or associated jet; an isolated detector track is insufficient evidence for a free quark. 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helicity description with basis and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Separates species-level spin from a process-dependent spin state." }, { "name": "Colour description", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Triplet | antitriplet; optional simulation colour-flow labels with convention", "why_it_matters": "Supports strong-interaction modelling without presenting a basis-dependent colour label as a directly measured property." }, { "name": "Physical or modelling context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Hadron constituent | hard-process parton | shower parton | medium excitation | reconstructed hypothesis", "why_it_matters": "Determines which individual-quark properties and operations are meaningful." }, { "name": "Containing or associated system", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to hadron, collision process, medium, jet or decay hypothesis; specify relation type", "why_it_matters": "Prevents confusing containment, ancestry and observational association." }, { "name": "Four-momentum assignment", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Energy in GeV and momentum components in GeV/c; frame, reconstruction level and uncertainty required", "why_it_matters": "Supports kinematic reasoning while exposing dependence on reconstruction or simulation." }, { "name": "Mass parameter", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "GeV/c^2; mass definition, renormalisation scheme and scale where applicable", "why_it_matters": "Prevents comparison of running, pole, constituent and generator parameters as interchangeable measurements." }, { "name": "Inference status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Species property | theoretical assignment | generator record | experimentally inferred candidate; confidence with calibration context", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether an agent may assert identity, compare hypotheses or only report an unresolved interpretation." } ], "affordances": [ "Check a proposed quark identity against flavour, charge, spin and colour representation.", "Associate a quark hypothesis with hadron content, a hard process or reconstructed decay evidence.", "Compare kinematic or mass estimates only after reconciling definitions, scales and uncertainties.", "Evaluate proposed production and transition channels against conservation laws and interaction assumptions.", "Select a context-appropriate calculation, simulation or tagging method and report its applicability limits.", "Revise or reject an assignment when evidence cannot distinguish a quark from alternative partonic or hadronic explanations." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "pdg-2024-quark", "title": "Quark (Review of Particle Physics)", "url": "https://pdg.lbl.gov/", "what_it_supports": "Masses, charges, generations, and Standard Model quantum numbers of the six quark flavors.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "cern-quark", "title": "The Standard Model - quarks", "url": "https://home.cern/science/physics/standard-model", "what_it_supports": "CERN public description of quarks as confined constituents of hadrons.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "flavour-and-quantum-identity", "name": "Flavour and quantum identity", "description": "Record what makes an assignment a particular quark species rather than another particle.", "rationale": "An agent needs a coherent identity before applying quark-specific state or interaction rules.", "layers": [ { "id": "flavour-and-conjugation", "name": "Flavour and conjugation", "description": "Separate species identity from particle or antiparticle designation.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-flavour-assignment", "name": "Supported flavour assignment", "description": "Record a resolved flavour or explicit alternatives, together with whether the assignment denotes a quark or antiquark.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which quark flavour and particle or antiparticle designation are asserted, and which remain unresolved?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-flavour-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Does this assignment come from a theoretical species definition, generator ancestry or experimental flavour evidence?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-flavour-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "quantum-number-consistency", "name": "Quantum-number consistency", "description": "Check the identifying quantum numbers without confusing intrinsic properties with measured proxies.", "findings": [ { "id": "compatible-charge-spin-and-colour", "name": "Compatible charge, spin and colour", "description": "Require a consistent charge, spin and colour representation, while distinguishing spin-state estimates and colour-flow conventions from species properties.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are electric charge, spin and colour representation consistent with the proposed flavour and conjugation?", "kind": "definition", "id": "compatible-charge-spin-and-colour-q01" }, { "text": "Which stated properties are inferred from identity, and which have independently measured estimators?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "compatible-charge-spin-and-colour-q02" }, { "text": "Would the same evidence also support a lepton, gluon or composite-hadron interpretation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "compatible-charge-spin-and-colour-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "confinement-and-description-context", "name": "Confinement and description context", "description": "Record where a quark description applies and what its containing or associated system permits an agent to infer.", "rationale": "A quark assignment cannot be handled as an ordinary independently observable object.", "layers": [ { "id": "hadronic-and-medium-context", "name": "Hadronic and medium context", "description": "Locate the quark description within a hadron or interacting medium.", "findings": [ { "id": "constituent-role-and-environment", "name": "Constituent role and environment", "description": "Record whether the description concerns valence content, sea contributions or an effective medium excitation, rather than assigning every context a persistent individual constituent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the quark described as valence content, a sea contribution or an excitation in a strongly interacting medium?", "kind": "definition", "id": "constituent-role-and-environment-q01" }, { "text": "Which hadron or medium model supplies the environment and the approximation used?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "constituent-role-and-environment-q02" }, { "text": "Does the description support an individual quark state, or only flavour content or a statistical distribution?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "constituent-role-and-environment-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "partonic-description-limits", "name": "Partonic description limits", "description": "Bound the interpretation of quarks represented in calculations and event records.", "findings": [ { "id": "parton-stage-and-identity-limits", "name": "Parton stage and identity limits", "description": "Distinguish hard-process and shower assignments from observable final particles, and retain the conventions behind any ancestry relation.", "questions": [ { "text": "At which calculation or generator stage is this quark assignment defined?", "kind": "definition", "id": "parton-stage-and-identity-limits-q01" }, { "text": "What resolution scale, factorisation assumptions or event-record conventions make that assignment meaningful?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "parton-stage-and-identity-limits-q02" }, { "text": "May an agent follow the assignment across stages, or must it preserve a probabilistic or convention-dependent association?", "kind": "action", "id": "parton-stage-and-identity-limits-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kinematics-and-mass-interpretation", "name": "Kinematics and mass interpretation", "description": "Make quantitative quark-state assertions interpretable and comparable.", "rationale": "Quark momentum and mass values can depend materially on the theoretical description and inference procedure.", "layers": [ { "id": 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[ATLAS top-quark overview](https://atlas.cern/updates/feature/top-quark)", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the assigned flavour and environment require hadronisation modelling, quark-level decay modelling or an explicitly coupled treatment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "flavour-dependent-fate-q01" }, { "text": "Does a quoted lifetime or decay width belong to the quark description or to a containing hadron?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "flavour-dependent-fate-q02" }, { "text": "Which descendants or hadronisation products may be linked to this assignment, with what modelling uncertainty?", "kind": "action", "id": "flavour-dependent-fate-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observable-evidence-and-inference", "name": "Observable evidence and inference", "description": "Connect quark assertions to measurable signatures and control how strongly an agent may act on them.", "rationale": "Quark identification usually depends on interpreting composite final states rather than observing a quark directly.", "layers": [ { "id": "signatures-and-alternatives", "name": "Signatures and alternatives", "description": "Record the observables and competing explanations behind an assignment.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-quark-assignment", "name": "Evidence for quark assignment", "description": "Identify the measured signatures supporting a quark or flavour interpretation, retaining backgrounds and ambiguity between quark and gluon origins.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which measured signatures support the assignment, such as displaced vertices, identified hadrons, decay reconstruction or scattering distributions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-for-quark-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Which dataset, analysis and reconstruction procedure produced those signatures?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-for-quark-assignment-q02" }, { "text": "Which alternative flavours, gluon processes or hadronic backgrounds remain compatible with the evidence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "evidence-for-quark-assignment-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "calibration-and-permitted-use", "name": "Calibration and permitted use", "description": "Translate evidence quality into justified analytical actions.", "findings": [ { "id": "assignment-strength-and-use", "name": "Assignment strength and use", "description": "Preserve tagging calibration, selection dependence and model uncertainty so that a candidate label does not become an unjustified certainty.", "questions": [ { "text": "What efficiencies, mistag rates, uncertainty estimates and validation domain accompany the assignment?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assignment-strength-and-use-q01" }, { "text": "Is a reported score a calibrated probability, a discriminant or a generator label?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assignment-strength-and-use-q02" }, { "text": "Does the evidence justify selecting a flavour-specific analysis, retaining several hypotheses or withholding a resolved assignment?", "kind": "action", "id": "assignment-strength-and-use-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a quark is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a quark, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a quark, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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"description": "Where a quark is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a quark is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a quark, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a quark, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a quark is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a quark is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a quark, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a quark, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a quark is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a quark passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a quark between them.", 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"Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a quark is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a quark, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a quark, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a quark is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", 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"ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise quark, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How quark is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does quark have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does quark need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about quark is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about quark hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern quark, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a quark came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on 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"name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a quark is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a quark, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a quark, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a quark is known, 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