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How relevant is the electric charge of quarks within hadrons?
Given that each quark flavor has a particular electric charge (i.e., either +2/3 or -1/3): how do these charges effect the internal dynamics of hadrons? Do the attractive and repulsive effects of ...
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Kinetic energy of quarks in a proton
If we say that a proton has a kinetic energy of 50 GeV, can we say that each of the three quarks that compose it have roughly a mean energy of $\approx \frac{50}3=17$ GeV?
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Do all hadrons experience the strong nuclear force?
In nuclear physics, nuclear force, also known as the residual strong force, is mediated by pions exchanged between protons and neutrons. It doesn't seem like this should be limited to protons and ...
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Like quark baryons
Why aren't there particles like neutrons or protons but with 3 up or 3 down quarks, instead of 2 up/1 down or 2 down/1 up. Does there have to be 2 different types of quarks for the strong force to ...
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If the Strong Nuclear Force is $6×10^{39}$times stronger than gravity, how is a black hole able to tear nuclei apart?
Furthermore, would a black hole be able to tear apart a quark pair? Would there be a difference in tidal forces on a scale that small?
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What happens when one separates a quark-antiquark pair?
in particular, if the distance is more than about 1 fm?
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How do gluons bind the quarks together within the hadrons and mesons?
I was trying to know about the strong nuclear force within the nucleus and the books and websites told me that it is the gluons which carry the force, and now I am curious how the gluons carry this ...
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Why is color change between quarks without consequence?
As always I will preface this question with the fact that I only have a high school education, so I may be overlooking something, or unaware of something that is inherent to the question.
That being ...
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Asymptotic freedom and momentum exchange
Why is the momentum exchange very high for low distances?
For sufficiently short distances or large exchanges of momentum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotic_freedom
While I think about ...
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Is the (range of the) strong force the same for nucleons and quarks?
In high school, I learnt that the strong force held the nucleus together. It had a very short range and was repulsive at small separation distances to prevent the nucleons from collapsing.
Now I am ...
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Why do the quarks constantly change colors?
In a hadron the quarks constantly change colors.They,then exchange gluons to remain color neutral.For example a red quark becomes blue by emitting a red and anti blue gluon and then the blue quark ...
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