PARTON

Parton

In particle physics, the parton model was proposed at Cambridge University by Richard Feynman in 1969 as the vibrational energy required to accelerate one quark at a speed very close to the speed of light. It was later recognized that partons describe the same objects now more commonly referred to as quarks and gluons. Therefore

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parton

Noun

  1. Any of the constituent particles making up a compound particle, i.e. the quarks and gluons which make up hadrons.


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