by Scot Trembley-Freytag, Lucent Technologies and Ernie Malamud, Fermilab
there is another on-line interactive quark demonstration showing quark confinement by Professor Wolfgang Christian at Davidson College. (and many other neat physics applets) -- go to "Animator3, Ex 7"
What are the building blocks of an atom? Is the smallest part the nucleus? The protons and neutrons in the nucleus? How about quarks?!
Quarks combine to make protons and neutrons which form the nucleus of an atom. There are six kinds of quarks and they combine in threes to form protons, neutrons, and other particles called baryons.
Anti-Quarks can make antibaryons, and can even combine with quarks to make other particles called mesons.
Click to make a proton particle!
Click to make a neutron particle!
Click to make a bottom baryon particle!
Click to make a charmed baryon particle!
Click to make a strange baryon particle!
Click to make a top baryon particle!
Click to make an omega baryon particle!
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