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Chaos' lil bro Order
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Greetings,
I've read that Quarks became confined and able to bind into baryons like protons and neutrons in the Period of ~10*-12seconds -to- ~10*-5seconds. Its been stated that as the average photon's energy in this period (kT) dropped below about 1 GeV, that quarks could finally bind to each other since collision energies were sufficiently weak to allow such binding...
My Question then is this, given that the 6 known Quarks have these energies:
Up 340MeV
Down 340MeV
Charm 1500MeV
Strange 560MeV
Top 174000MeV
Bottom 5000MeV
How is it possible for, say, a Bottom and Strange Quark to bind if their combined rest masses are already well above 1 GeV (they are 5560MeV combined)? Also, this doesn't even consider their Relativistic momentums which would make their masses much greater as they approach velocities near C.
If anyone could explain why 1 GeV is the apparent threshold for Quark confinement in terms of the Rest Masses of these Quarks and their Relativisitc collision energies, I would greatly appreciate it. If you could provide a good analogy in conjunction with the mathematical framework and formulas, even better.
Thank you kindly,
Paul
I've read that Quarks became confined and able to bind into baryons like protons and neutrons in the Period of ~10*-12seconds -to- ~10*-5seconds. Its been stated that as the average photon's energy in this period (kT) dropped below about 1 GeV, that quarks could finally bind to each other since collision energies were sufficiently weak to allow such binding...
My Question then is this, given that the 6 known Quarks have these energies:
Up 340MeV
Down 340MeV
Charm 1500MeV
Strange 560MeV
Top 174000MeV
Bottom 5000MeV
How is it possible for, say, a Bottom and Strange Quark to bind if their combined rest masses are already well above 1 GeV (they are 5560MeV combined)? Also, this doesn't even consider their Relativistic momentums which would make their masses much greater as they approach velocities near C.
If anyone could explain why 1 GeV is the apparent threshold for Quark confinement in terms of the Rest Masses of these Quarks and their Relativisitc collision energies, I would greatly appreciate it. If you could provide a good analogy in conjunction with the mathematical framework and formulas, even better.
Thank you kindly,
Paul