Timeline for How can the proton include top quarks, if a top quark is heavier than the proton?
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| Aug 25, 2016 at 2:19 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhysics/status/768633949832773633 | ||
| Aug 24, 2016 at 5:54 | comment | added | Bill Alsept | How do we know an electron has gluons, and virtual quark/antiquark pairs that have a fleeting existence? How do we know there's more than just three quarks? | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 5:17 | history | edited | user36790 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 3:29 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 2:58 | comment | added | Lewis Miller | The proton consists of valence quarks, gluons, and virtual quark/antiquark pairs that have a fleeting existence. The top quark contributes to this latter category. | |
| Aug 24, 2016 at 2:14 | history | edited | knzhou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 2:14 | comment | added | knzhou | For people who think this is false: the OP is talking about the proton's parton distribution functions. The top quark PDF is not zero. | |
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| Aug 24, 2016 at 2:09 | history | asked | user128081 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |