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Spinnor
Jul31-11, 12:01 PM
Can the energy in the fields that make up an proton be fraction-ed into a pie chart?
Don't we have quark, gluon, weak, electromagnetic field energy in a proton?
Thanks for any help!
Think of it as all gluons and you'd be pretty close. Surprisingly the quarks contribute only a percent or two, all the rest comes from gluon binding energy and kinetic energy.
Think of it as all gluons and you'd be pretty close. Surprisingly the quarks contribute only a percent or two, all the rest comes from gluon binding energy and kinetic energy.
Thank you!
How wrong would I be if I estimated the Electroweak field energy contribution by the relative strength of the forces:
Strong field energy:Weak field energy:Electromagnetic field energy::
1:1/137:10^-6 or should it be the squares of these numbers?
Numbers from:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/couple.html
Thanks for any help!
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