RE: Do All Protons Have the Same Number of Quarks?
October 3, 2017 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2017 at 12:28 pm by Rhondazvous.)
(September 29, 2017 at 5:02 pm)Alex K Wrote: Hi!This is very cinematic. It's my job to take SU(3) and put it on a stage so readers can see it happening.
Yes and no - there are three quarks which make up its fixed inventory, but on top of that, quark-antiquark pairs pop in and out of existence constantly. The net number if you take the difference of quarks and antiquarks is exactly 3 though.
Wjy 3 exactly? Because the strong force is so strong, stable isolated particles need to be color neutral to exist. The symmetries of the strong force have the property that it is not possibe for 4 or 5 quarks to be color charge neutral. This can be explained by the mathematical structure of the strong interactions which are governed by an SU(3) symmetry group - if you want to get technical.
Don't the quarks and antiquarks annihilate one another? If so, what is the product of that annihilation? A gamma ray like with electrons and positrons?
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