fragmentation hadronization diagram (IMAGE)

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fragmentation hadronization diagram

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When an energetic quark or gluon gets knocked free during a proton-proton collision, this free "parton" first generates a shower of other partons, which then "fragment" to form hadrons (h) such as kaons (K), pions (π), and protons (p). The higher the energy of the initial quark or gluon, the higher the number of hadrons. When the entropy of the hadrons equals the entropy of the fragmentation process the system is maximally entangled.

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