Pressure in the Proton (IMAGE)

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Pressure in the Proton

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Nuclear physicists have found that the proton's building blocks, the quarks, are subjected to a pressure of 100 decillion Pascal (1035) near the center of a proton, which is about 10 times greater than the pressure in the heart of a neutron star.

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