I Quarks in a Mole: Hydrogen, Plutonium & the Periodic Chart

[PhilipQuark]

Quarks in a Mole
If I have one mole of hydrogen, I only have Up and Down Quarks, right?
If I have one mole of Plutonium, I should have all the Quarks, right?
Where on the Periodic Chart do all the Quarks start showing up?

 

[Drakkith]

Where on the Periodic Chart do all the Quarks start showing up?

Nowhere. All elements are composed of protons and neutrons, which are themselves composed of only up and down quarks.

 

[PhilipQuark]

in one Mole of hydrogen would you find all Quarks?:up, down, strange, charm, top, and bottom

 

[Vanadium 50]

No. All elements are composed of protons and neutrons, which are themselves composed of only up and down quarks.

 

[PhilipQuark]

So, therein lies my confusion, with only protons and neutrons there should only be up, and down, so where do the other quarks hide? this is something that's been on my mind for a long time and my College Physics Professor could not answer. (I II)

 

[mathman]

So, therein lies my confusion, with only protons and neutrons there should only be up, and down, so where do the other quarks hide? this is something that's been on my mind for a long time and my College Physics Professor could not answer. (I II)

Other quarks appear in unstable baryons created in various high energy colliders.

So, therein lies my confusion, with only protons and neutrons there should only be up, and down, so where do the other quarks hide? this is something that's been on my mind for a long time and my College Physics Professor could not answer. (I II)

Other quarks appear in unstable hadrons created in various high energy colliders.

 

[PhilipQuark]

so, the energy of a collision creates the other Quarks. do they decay? and what do they decay into?

 

[Vanadium 50]

No. All elements are composed of protons and neutrons, which are themselves composed of only up and down quarks.

That was post 20,000. (Half as many as Doc Al or Berkeman)

 

[atyy]

so, the energy of a collision creates the other Quarks. do they decay? and what do they decay into?

Yes, the energy of a collision creates other quarks, which decay. For example, the top quark decay is described here: http://particleadventure.org/top_pro.html.