Research Offers New Insights into the Mechanisms of How Quarks Combine (IMAGE)

DOE/US Department of Energy

Research Offers New Insights into the Mechanisms of How Quarks Combine

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Illustration of a proton-proton collision at the Large Hadron Collider. Quarks produced in these collisions can cluster in threes to produce baryons (green) or in twos to make mesons (red).

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Image courtesy of May Napora.

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