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What happens when you break quark bands?

Asked by Brian_Ghilliotti (328points) May 21st, 2018

Within protons and neutrons, there exists three quarks “bound” to each other. For protons, this consists of two “up” quarks per one “down” quark. For neutrons, this consists of of two “down” quarks per one “up” quark. What would happen if one were to successfully break the bands of either type of quark grouping just described? Is it possible? Brian Ghilliotti

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RedDeerGuy1's avatar

BOOM!? Maybe a sub-atomic explosion.

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Quarks break free at around 2 trillion degrees Kelvin.

On 13 August 2012 scientists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, Geneva, Switzerland, announced that they had achieved temperatures of over 5 trillion K and perhaps as high as 5.5 trillion K (more than 9.9 trillion °F). The team had been using the ALICE experiment to smash together lead ions at 99% of the speed of light to create a quark gluon plasma – an exotic state of matter believed to have filled the universe just after the Big Bang

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