The conditions also create anti-quarks, which are the fundamental particles that make up the nuclei of anti-atoms.
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When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks and gluons.
It has been known since the 1960s that protons are made of smaller particles called quarks and gluons.
Quarks are among the dozen subatomic particles that physicists recognise, at least at the moment, as being truly fundamental.
The resultant conditions then create quarks, which are the fundamental particles that make up the protons and neutrons of atoms.
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After they are produced, the quarks and anti-quarks then combine to create protons and neutrons, which themselves combine to produce atomic nuclei.
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For Mattis, Weston's intricate portraits of objects like peppers, cabbages and shells reflected his own obsessively detailed study of quarks, electrons and photons.
Then he switched to particle physics and worked on building and using particle detectors destined to figure out aspects of how quarks behave.
The gluons, as their name suggests, hold the quarks together.
Any conclusive proof of the condensate would have an impact both on how we understand particle production in collisions as well as the ways gluons and quarks are arranged inside protons.
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Quarks, the particles from which atomic nuclei are made, were reckoned to have such fractional charges, but since it is impossible to isolate a quark, its charge cannot be measured directly.
Six of the fermions are the quarks.
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According to the standard model these six particles (the flavoured neutrinos and the corresponding electron-like particles) together with another six, the quarks (which make up the protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei), are the irreducible units from which the rest of matter is composed.
Although the theory that describes the interaction of quarks and gluons is on a firm conceptual footing, it is so complicated in practice that it can take years to make a single calculation of something like the shape of a proton even using the most powerful supercomputers.
My desperation is lessened, however, by some of the more quantum physics theory which seems to suggest that, if at a sub-atomic level quarks can be in two places at once, then logically there must be a parallel universe where NZ were 130 all out and we are about to win.
Dr Kobayashi and Dr Maskawa, who were at Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation and Kyoto University respectively, described a type of symmetry breaking that predicted two new families of quarks, a sort of subatomic particle whose simplest members are the ingredients of the protons and neutrons that form atomic nuclei.
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