Can Synthetic Hadrons be Created by Combining Quarks?

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Synthetic hadrons cannot be created by simply combining quarks due to the confinement property of quarks within hadrons. The discussion highlights that while physicists have successfully synthesized elements by combining protons and neutrons, the energy required to free quarks from hadrons is prohibitively high. Instead, hadrons are formed through high-energy collisions of existing hadrons, which is the current method employed in particle physics to study these fundamental particles.

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My son asked me a question I could not answer the other day (sorry I'm a biophysicist). Physicists have created synthetic elements by combining sufficient protons and neutron into a nucleus. Has anyone ever created a synthetic hadron by combining quarks? Is that even at all possible?

My guess was no since it would require an inordinate amount of energy.
 
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Since quarks can't be set free from the hadrons, they can't be used to make combinations. Hadrons of various sorts are created by banging other hadrons together at high speed.
 

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