The potential energy between two heavy ones is Coulombic at short distances, but becomes linear, representing a constant attractive force, for a range of distances around a femtometer. The effect of pair creation of these particles allows chromoelectric flux tubes to break, with the pieces becoming independent jets. The heaviest known one weighs about 175 GeV and was discovered at Fermilab's Tevatron collider, and unlike lighter ones, it decays before it can form hadrons. They were called "aces" by George Zweig, who proposed them independently of Murray Gell-Mann. For 10 points, what is this t
The potential energy between two heavy ones is Coulombic at short distances, but becomes linear, representing a constant attractive force, for a range of distances around a femtometer. The effect of pair creation of these particles allows chromoelectric flux tubes to break, with the pieces becoming independent jets. The heaviest known one weighs about 175 GeV and was discovered at Fermilab's Tevatron collider, and unlike lighter ones, it decays before it can form hadrons. They were called "aces" by George Zweig, who proposed them independently of Murray Gell-Mann. For 10 points, what is this type of subatomic particle, 3 of which make up a proton or neutron?
The potential energy between two heavy ones is Coulombic at short distances, but becomes linear, representing a constant attractive force, for a range of distances around a femtometer.
quark