Drell-Yan Alpha (IMAGE)

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Drell-Yan Alpha

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Graphic of quarks annihilating (left red lines), producing a photon (middle line), and producing two muons (right magenta lines). Scientists detected these muons to gain insight into the quark asymmetry of the proton.

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(Image by Paul Reimer/Argonne National Laboratory.)

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