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Nuclear Physics Explained: Season 1

1x12 Sea Quarks, Gluons, and the Origin of Mass
TV-PG

  • 2018-04-27T00:00:00Z on The Great Courses
  • 29m
  • Special Interest
Discover the fundamental particles that make protons and neutrons tick - namely, quarks and gluons. Learn why quarks are never seen in isolation and why the mass of ordinary valence quarks accounts for only a tiny fraction of their mass. The answer to both riddles lies in "sea quarks," the swarm of quark-antiquark pairs within protons and neutrons, which can be infinite in number.
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