# Linked Questions

22 questions linked to/from What's inside a proton?
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### What is the motion of quarks inside nucleons? [duplicate]

Nucleons consist of quarks which are charged particles. Proton has the quark content of uud and neutron of udd. So, it may be visualized that the down quark always remain between the up quarks inside ...
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### The Internal Structure of A Nucleon [duplicate]

Just like, in a Bohr model, the atom has a particular structure, what is it like inside of a nucleon? Like, are there particular ways the quarks are arranged, and what about the binding energy that ...
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### Does core of a proton exist? [duplicate]

I understand a proton is made up of quarks/gluons. I want to know if a proton has an actual core? Also whether protons have a core/surface temperature.
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### Why doesn't an electron ever hit (and stick on) a proton?

Imagine there is a proton confined in a box and we put an electron at 10 cm distance: It gets an acceleration of thousands of meters/second^2 along a straight line joining the two CM's. One would ...
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### What is the experimental evidence that the nucleons are made up of three quarks?

What is the experimental evidence that the nucleons are made up of three quarks? What is the point of saying that nucleons are made of quarks when there are also gluons inside it?
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### In which experiment did protons seem to consist of infinite amount of quarks?

In this video Richard Feynman is telling that in some experiment it seems that the proton should consist of infinite amount of quarks. What is this case he's mentioning? Is it solved now?
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### Quarks in a hadron- where does the mass come from

We know that the sum of the masses of the quarks in a proton is approximately $9.4^{+1.9}_{-1.3}~\text{MeV}/c^2$, whereas the mass of a proton is $\approx931~\text{MeV}/c^2$. This extra mass is ...
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### Why are there 3 quarks in a proton? [closed]

A few quark related questions (I don't know much about them other than that there are 2 flavors concerning protons and neutrons). Why are there 3 quarks in a proton or neutron? Why not 2 or 4? Is ...
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### What are the average matter, antimatter, and binding energy composition of protons and neutrons?

For a free baryon at rest at room temperature, how much of its ~1Gev (rest) mass can (on average) be considered as matter, as antimatter, and as binding energy? For a baryon in a nucleus, I assume ...
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### Quark Radius Upper Bound

If quarks had internal structure (contradicting current beliefs), what is the lowest upper bound on their "radius" based on current experimental results? If possible, I'd prefer to only consider ...
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### How the nucleon structure has been identified experimentally?

It is known that nucleons (proton, neutron) are composed of partons (quarks, etc.). How was this identified experimentally? In particular, how it has been identified that nucleons comprise of more ...
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### How to determine how many atoms are in something?

I want to know if it's possible to find out how many atoms are in something, and how one would do that. For example, how many quarks are in my brain(easy to find out once you know how many atoms there ...
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### Are protons and neutrons 2 dimensional given that they consist of 3 quarks?

Assuming the following: Neutrons and protons are made of 3 quarks (of different types). All quarks are point particles Then a neutron or proton cannot be 3 dimensional because three points cannot ...
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### If virtual particles have negative mass why do they contribute positive mass to atoms?

According to Lawrence Krauss, atoms containing in our body consists of merely 10% (if I remember correctly) of our total mass. The rest come from virtual particles popping in and out of existence from ...
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### LEP vs. LHC for Higgs production?

Now that we know the mass of the Higgs boson, which system would be better for the production of Higgs bosons, the LEP ramped up or the LHC?

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