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Tempest in a pinpoint
A proton contains two up quarks, a down quark and a
soup of quark-antiquark pairs, seething below the
surface.
It is often said that a proton is made of three
quarks: two of the same type, called up quarks,
and one of a different type called a down quark.
But that's not the whole story. In the space
between these three stable quarks there is a
boiling soup of quark–antiquark pairs. That is, a
quark and an antimatter quark spontaneously
come into existence, drift a while, and then
recombine, destroying one another. This
happens all the time— in every proton in every
atom of every cell of our bodies, and in all of the
matter in the universe.
When two protons collide in the LHC, most of
the individual quarks miss each other. Often
only one quark or antiquark from each proton
collides directly. When an up quark collides with
an anti-down quark, the two can combine to
form a W+ boson; similarly, a down quark and
an anti-up quark can combine to form a W¯
boson. In both cases, an antiquark is involved.
Thus, each of the millions of W bosons
produced at the LHC must come from at least
one of these transient particles, caught before it
had a chance to sink back into the soup.
CMS scientists recently measured the ratio of
W+ to W¯ production in proton collisions at the
LHC. The number of W+ bosons exceeds the
number of W¯ bosons by about 40 percent,
partly because each proton has two stable up-
quarks for every stable down-quark. However,
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quark-antiquark soup.

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Tempest in a pinpoint

A proton contains two up quarks, a down quark and a soup of quark-antiquark pairs, seething below the
surface.