answersLogoWhite

0

If a quark and anti-quark collide, they could scatter. But it is also possible (with increasing probability at lower energies) that they undergo what is called mutual annihilation. In mutual annihilation, both particles are converted entirely into energy.

Quarks, it should be noted, cannot exist by themselves. It should also be noted that there are some particles created by quark-antiquark pairs. These particles, like the J/psi meson, are short-lived, but do exist. Investigators are still working on a better understanding of quarks and the relationship between the strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions.

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago

What else can I help you with?

Continue Learning about Natural Sciences

What happens to the temperature as you get closer to the poles?

They Meet


Six particles situated at the corners of a regular hexagon of side a move a a constant speed v Each particle maintains a direction towards the particle at the nextcorner Calculate time the particle?

Relative velocity of A wrt B = V - Vsin30 = V/2Time = distance / speedTime = 2a/VIn reality each particle will follow a curved path and eventually meet at the center of the hexagon.


What happens when atom of oxygen and hydrogen meet?

The product of the reaction is water.


What is matter and antimatter changed into if they touch?

They would annihilate each other equally. Every electron that encounters a positron (the antimatter equivelant to an electron), every proton that encounters an antiproton and every neutron that encounters an anti-neutron would completely annihilate; both the matter and antimatter particle would fully transform into energy with no residual matter (nor antimatter) if the touch were somehow perfect.The amount of energy produced is enormous for even a small amount of matter/antimatter annihilation. The amount of energy released is dependent on how much matter and antimatter annihilate each other based on Einstein's famouse equation, e = mc2, which means energy (e) is equal to mass (m) times the square of the speed of light (c). Since light is incredibly fast, squaring it is a huge multiplier to mass. Nuclear fission (atomic bombs) and nuclear fusion (hydrogen bombs) generate their energy based on this same formula, but only a relatively small amount of the matter used in fission or fusion is converted into energy. By comparison, all of the matter and antimatter that come into contact will convert into energy, so the power of an explosion resulting from a matter/antimatter annihilation would be many times more energetic than even a hydrogen bomb of similar mass.The largest bomb ever detonated in the history of manking was the Tsar Bomba, a fusion or h-bomb which yielded an explosive force of 50 million tonnes of TNT. The bomb itself weighed 27,000 kilograms.By comparison, if you had a combined total of 27,000 kilograms of matter and antimatter, and created an annihilation bomb (putting all of the matter and antimatter into contact with each other), the resulting explosion would be1,159,920 megatonnes (or 1.15992 teratonnes) or more than twenty-three thousand times as powerful as the Tsar Bomba! This is huge, but wouldn't quite destroy the earth though it could certainly exterminate a lot of life. The "dinosaur killer" asteroid, estimated to have been maybe 15 kilometers across and striking the earth at 20 km/s, was more than four thousand times as powerful as this.


How do the position and movement of particle's in a liquid help to explain the shape and volume of the liquid?

because when the atoms meet up in the gases they separate and form more gases of matter. that's basically it!

Related Questions

What happened when the matter and antimatter met?

When a particle and its antiparticle meet, they are converted into energy. The amount of energy is described by the famous equation e = mc2


What occurs when a particle of matter and a particle of anti matter meet?

When a particle of matter meets a particle of antimatter, they annihilate each other, releasing a burst of energy in the form of gamma rays. This process converts their combined mass into pure energy, following Einstein's famous equation E=mc^2.


Each fundamental atomic particle has an opposite particle. A collision of these opposites will result in the annihilation of each particle. What are these types of particles called?

Anti-particles. In the case of the (normal negatively-charged) electron, the anti-particle has a specific name; the positron. Since normal particles are the building blocks of matter, a collection of anti-particles are termed "anti-matter".


Why is still antimatter in the universe if it was defeated by the matter in the big bang?

Our current understanding says that matter-antimatter pairs can be produced by a sufficiently strong energy field, and further says that this is happening all the time. Normally these particles quickly meet up and annihilate each other, but under certain conditions this might not happen, which would leave free antimatter particles running around.


What will happens when a stalagmite and a stalgcite meet?

They do meet and form a column


What happens when two tangent segments meet at a point outside a circle?

Nothing "happens". They meet, and the rays continue merrily along their ways, never to meet again!


What happens when a trough meet a trough?

fortnite


What happens to the temperature as you get closer to the poles?

They Meet


Why doesn't electrons get destroyed?

They are destroyed in "K capture" decay when a proton in the nucleus captures an electron, becoming a neutron.They are destroyed in matter-antimatter annihilation when they meet a positron, a gamma ray photon is emitted.


What happens when you meet steven in heartgold?

you get to challenge him to a battle


What happens when cold air and moisture meet?

condensation


What happens if we meet aliens?

The would have war with us