Answer by MohA for Can free quarks exist?
Quantum chromodynamic (QCD) as the theory of strong interaction has some important features. Two of them are confinement of color and dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry. At sufficient low energy (or...
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A quark cannot exit a hadron except when it has sufficient energy to create a quark-antiquark pair, leaving the newly created quark behind in its place. There's no sense in which a trillion-degree...
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If you mean can quarks break free of their confinement by the strong force, then the Quark-gluon plasma article on Wikipedia says (cutting and pasting bits here):Quark–gluon plasma is a state of matter...
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I know that currently free quarks do not exist but can they exist under any circumstance? The Physicsworld article Quarks break free at two trillion degrees states that they do but I want a...
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