The Quark Gluon Event

Posted by sol on September 22, 2003 at 05:48:23:

In Reply to: Re: Doing the Bose Nova posted by sol on September 21, 2003 at 22:09:37:

Wrinkles in Time, by George Smoot and Keay Davidson, pg 16,

"The interaction of these quarks gets weaker and simpler, the more closely packed the quarks are and the higher the energy of the quarks. All extra particles that physicists had found were simply unstable combinations of quarks that quickly split into more stable combinations.

The Color Force Field

If one of the quarks in a given hadron is pulled away from its neighbors, the color-force field "stretches" between that quark and its neighbors. In so doing, more and more energy is added to the color-force field as the quarks are pulled apart. At some point, it is energetically cheaper for the color-force field to "snap" into a new quark-antiquark pair. In so doing, energy is conserved because the energy of the color-force field is converted into the mass of the new quarks, and the color-force field can "relax" back to an unstretched state.

Sol

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