PeterSeeksKnowledge Posted August 5, 2022 Author Share Posted August 5, 2022 How can the Down Quark be studied more if it cannot be isolated ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joigus Posted August 5, 2022 Share Posted August 5, 2022 On 8/3/2022 at 11:43 PM, PeterSeeksKnowledge said: Down quarks themselves cannot be the source of gravity, but there may be something in the proportion of down quarks to up quarks in a particular type of matter that somehow affects the binding energy present in that matter. And what is the ratio of down quarks to other quarks in the case of photons, which are certainly coupled to gravity? 0/0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Hanke Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 20 hours ago, PeterSeeksKnowledge said: How can the Down Quark be studied more if it cannot be isolated ? You can’t isolate it (the concept of a single quark doesn’t even make sense), but you can probe its properties by letting it interact with other particles, even while it is bound up in a composite particle. This technique is called deep inelastic scattering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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