patrons

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Protons are hadrons, meaning they are made of partons, which include quarks and the gluons that hold them together.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

The approach can be used to model the vacuum state before a particle collision, physical systems with extremely high densities, and beams of hadrons.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2025

Interactions with other subatomic particles sapped the quarks’ energy to varying degrees, and they experienced changes in momentum as they linked up with other quarks to form hadrons.

From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2023

Mesons are hadrons that can decay to leptons and leave no hadrons, which implies that mesons are not conserved in number.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Gell-Mann’s theory was that all hadrons were made up of still smaller, even more fundamental particles.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson