Photon penetrating interior of the proton ‘sees’ only a fraction of the entangled quarks, gluons, and virtual particles. (IMAGE)

The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences

Photon penetrating interior of the proton ‘sees’ only a fraction of the entangled quarks, gluons, and virtual particles.

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During a deeply inelastic collision with a proton, a relativistic electron (highlighted in blue) can emit a high-energy photon (purple here) that penetrates interior of the proton, where it ‘sees’ only a fraction of the entangled quarks, gluons, and virtual particles. The excited proton later decays in cascades of secondary particles.

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Source: IFJ PAN, jch

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