My understanding is that quarks don't weigh enough to constituted of muons. While we hear of protons and neutrons being described as an assemblage of 3 quarks, they are talking about the valence quarks, and there are many more quark-antiquark pairs that constitute the whole mass of the proton or neutron. Because of this, quarks would have to be an assemblage of something smaller - epos for example.
Do I have it right? On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Mark > > This could be a further indication of some kind of cross-identity. Of > course, when an electron is emitted from a neutron beta decay - there are > those who strongly believe that it arose ab initio -- and was never a part > of the 3 quark arrangement. > > Thus - it is both an open question and a semantic issue about the meaning > attached to the consistent appearance of muons following a proton > disintegration. > > BTW - there is a small minority who affirm that the quark is little more > than a fiction, a place-holder. That is, it is a fiction in the sense that > it was invented to have properties that do show up in high energy events, > but it is has no independent identity of its own. In short, a quark could, > at some future point in time, be redefined as a "bound triad of muons", and > there is some evidence for that description now (and some against). > Statistically, the quark is composed of a triad --- three of something. > > Even the neutrino, another "invented particle" has been shown to have a > real identity, having once served the same purpose, which is as > place-holder, in the past. Not the quark. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Jurich > > ... And here's a ZZ --> 4 Muons CMS [Candidate] Event: > > https://cds.cern.ch/record/1378103?ln=en > > http://www.atlas.ch/multimedia/4-muon-event.html > > Here's a movie of a Proton-Proton Collision Event, eventually resulting in > 4 Muons (Actual Event, but the movie is a simulation, of course) seen in > the ATLAS Detector. Unfortunately I could not easily find one with CMS. > Perhaps someone will and all the future Hate Mail will stop! > > Mark Jurich > > >
