Feynman Diagram for Double Charm Baryon

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Feynman diagram of Xi_cc++ decay: two up quarks and a charm quark enter from the left, with a W+ boson emitted from a lower charm line producing up-down and up-down quark pairs, and strange-antistrange pair, ending in Lambda_c+, pi+, K-, and pi+ outgoing particles.


This Feynman diagram accompanied the announcement on the public LHCb site. How would you describe the origins of the up and down quark anti-quark pairs that that contribute to the decay of the ##\Xi_{cc}^{++}##?
 
Gluon-initiated. The gluons can come from anywhere, they are not drawn to keep the diagram simpler.
 
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Thanks for the quick reply. After thinking about it for a few minutes, I figured it had to be gluons scattering from somewhere.