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For mesons, or baryons, do sea quarks contribute to the angular momentum of the bound state?
The total angular momentum of a bound state of quarks, such as a meson say, can be done by studying the spin and orbital angular momentum of the 2 valence quarks.
What about the sea quarks why they ...
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What maintains quark spin alignments in baryons?
What maintains quark spin alignments in baryons?
The $uud$ proton and $udd$ neutron are both spin 1/2, implying that two of their spin 1/2 quarks are always parallel and the other is always opposed.
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How does Delta baryon decay conserve angular momentum?
I'm a chemist so bear with me:
I understand the Delta baryons $\Delta^{+}$ and $\Delta^{0}$ to be in some sense spin (and isospin) quartet states of the proton and neutron. These can decay straight ...
