quarks

In physics, the elementary particles that make up the protons and neutrons that in turn make up the atomic nucleus. Quarks are the most basic known constituent of matter. (See antimatter.)

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No quarks have been seen in the laboratory because, according to current theory, they cannot exist as free particles.

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The results reveal that quarks and gluons, the fundamental building blocks that make up a proton's structure, are subject to so-called quantum entanglement.

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Their approach attempts to illuminate a cosmological constant as well as the properties of leptons and quarks.

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Immediately following the Big Bang, physicists estimate, based on QCD, that the universe was an immensely hot plasma of quarks and gluons that then quickly cooled and combined to produce protons and neutrons.

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It's what "glues" quarks together to make up other subatomic particles, such as protons or neutrons.

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The event gave rise to an abundance of subatomic particles such as quarks and electrons.

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quarkonium quark star

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