hadrons
Quarks bound together
Hadrons are subatomic particles made up of quarks held together by the strong nuclear force.
The two most familiar hadrons are protons and neutrons, which combine to form atomic nuclei.
Hadrons are divided into two categories: baryons, composed of three quarks, and mesons, composed of a quark and an antiquark.
The Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, takes its name from these particles.
Fundamental hadron components
- gluonsStrong force exchange particles
- strong forceSubatomic binding interaction
- confinementState of being restricted
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
Positive nuclear particle
- neutronUncharged nuclear particle
- baryonThree-quark composite particle
- mesonQuark-antiquark bound state
- pionQuark-antiquark bound state
nucleon · antiproton · antiparticle · quark · gluon · strong force · strangeness
Massive subatomic collision facility
- CERNEuropean nuclear research organization
- acceleratorSpeed control mechanism
- synchrotronCircular charged-particle accelerator
- detectorDevice that senses
collision · Higgs · boson · experiment · CMS · calorimeter · luminosity · proton beam
Central controlling part
- nucleonProton or neutron
- nuclear forceBinds subatomic particles
- isotopeElemental variant by mass
- alpha particleIonizing emission from decay
quarks
Fundamental hadron components
- gluonsStrong force exchange particles
- strong forceSubatomic binding interaction
- confinementState of being restricted
proton
Positive nuclear particle
- neutronUncharged nuclear particle
- baryonThree-quark composite particle
- mesonQuark-antiquark bound state
pion · nucleon · antiproton · antiparticle · quark · gluon · strong force · strangeness
LHC
Massive subatomic collision facility
- CERNEuropean nuclear research organization
- acceleratorSpeed control mechanism
- synchrotronCircular charged-particle accelerator
detector · collision · Higgs · boson · experiment · CMS · calorimeter · luminosity · proton beam · ALICE
nucleus
Central controlling part
- nucleonProton or neutron
- nuclear forceBinds subatomic particles
- isotopeElemental variant by mass
alpha particle · atomic mass · neutron star · nuclear physics · mass number
- mattermatter, atoms, molecules, atom, molecule
- physicsphysics, momentum, atom, acceleration, gravity
- particleselectrons, electron, protons, proton, neutrons
- subatomic particleselectrons, protons, neutrons, photons, neutrinos
- particle physicsquark, quarks, lepton, leptons, boson
- QCDquarks, gluons, strong force, confinement, antiquarks
- Large Hadron ColliderCircular particle accelerator beneath Switzerland
- hadron colliderDevice smashing subatomic particles