Proton, anti Proton annihilation help

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I have been told when a proton and anti proton annihilate only the one up and one anti up quark destroyed forming ∏+ and ∏- measons. I don't understand how both protons are not fully annihilated?

anti proton has:
anti up, anti up and anti down quarks
proton has:
up, up down quarks

Any help would be appriciated. :)
 
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There are a number of channels in which this reaction can proceed.
 
I found the following referenc where baryon-antibaryon annihilation dynamics is discussed. You may follow other references from there:

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0501020v1
 
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