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Where does charm collide?

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charm2 CONSTRUCTSSuperficial charmCLECKLEY · CHARM TRAITCharm quarkBJORKEN-GLASHOW · QUARK

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1941Superficial charm1964Charm quark
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Personality and clinical psychology

An engaging manner that wins others over

In personality and clinical psychology, charm names an engaging, likeable, and fluent interpersonal manner that draws others in and eases influence over them. Hervey Cleckley's 1941 The Mask of Sanity first described this quality clinically as superficial charm, an outward agreeableness that can sit apart from deeper feeling, and Robert Hare's 1980 psychopathy checklist later operationalised glibness and superficial charm as a rated item. Here the referent is a measured characteristic of how one person presents to and affects others, not an amulet's attributed power or a quark's quantum property.[1][2]

Unit
One person's charm as an interpersonal characteristic, rated in degree
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Rated by trained clinicians or observers, for example as an item on the Psychopathy Checklist, and by interview or peer judgement

Particle physics

A flavor quantum number of the charm quark

In particle physics, charm is a flavor quantum number, a conserved count carried by the charm quark and by the hadrons built from it. Bjorken and Glashow's 1964 Elementary particles and SU(4) proposed a fourth quark and named its property charm; Glashow, Iliopoulos, and Maiani's 1970 mechanism showed why such a quark was needed to suppress certain weak decays, and the 1974 discovery of the J particle confirmed its existence. Here the referent is a measurable internal property of matter, assigned an integer value and conserved in strong and electromagnetic interactions, and it has nothing to do with a lucky amulet or a person's appealing manner beyond the shared word.[3][4][5]

Unit
An integer charm quantum number, +1 for the charm quark and summed over a particle's constituents
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Inferred from particle reactions and decays, where conservation of charm in strong and electromagnetic processes constrains the allowed products

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References

  1. Cleckley, H. (1941). The mask of sanity: An attempt to clarify some issues about the so-called psychopathic personality. C. V. Mosby.
  2. Hare, R. D. (1980). A research scale for the assessment of psychopathy in criminal populations. Personality and Individual Differences, 1(2), 111–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/0191-8869(80)90028-8
  3. Bjorken, B. J., & Glashow, S. L. (1964). Elementary particles and SU(4). Physics Letters, 11(3), 255–257. https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9163(64)90433-0
  4. Glashow, S. L., Iliopoulos, J., & Maiani, L. (1970). Weak interactions with lepton-hadron symmetry. Physical Review D, 2(7), 1285–1292. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.2.1285
  5. Aubert, J. J., Becker, U., Biggs, P. J., Burger, J., Chen, M., Everhart, G., ... Lee, Y. Y. (1974). Experimental observation of a heavy particle J. Physical Review Letters, 33(23), 1404–1406. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.33.1404

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