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When do pairs of quarks form jets vs mesons?
For certain processes with low momentum transfer, such as the Kaon decay shown below, quarks will form bound states of mesons.
Whereas for higher momentum-transfer processes, such as the decay of an ...
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Do hadronic jets always accompany the production of quarks? Do we account for them when describing collisions and decays?
I'm a relative beginner in particle physics, and the phenomenon of hadronic jets is not taught very well in my course. My understanding is that when quarks are produced in the centre of mass frame ...
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What happens to the individual quark(s) produced in a $W$ boson decay 'chain'?
Just over two-thirds of the time, a $W$ boson decays into quarks, usually an up quark and a down antiquark... Right?
Since quarks hate being alone, what happens next?
Does the up quark pull a single ...
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Is it entirely impossible for the top quark to hadronize?
I know that under normal circumstances the top quark does not have the time to hadronize. Under what conditions would it be possible to hadronize?
Obviously adding more energy to the top (if that was ...
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