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04-09-2005, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by GUILLE
What are hadrons? What are higgs?
hadron are fundamental particles that interact thru the strong force. They are made up of quarks. There are two groups: baryons and mesons. The baryons are made up of 3 quarks. This 3 combinations make baryons colorless. The mesons are made of 2 quarks: 1 quark and 1 anti-quark (not necessarily of the same flavors).

the Higgs boson is the quantum of the scalar field. This scalar field is needed to explain the force of anti-gravity during the inflationary phase of the universe.
  
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