Talk:Hadronization

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This occurs after high-energy collisions in a particle collider in which free quarks or gluons are created. Due to postulated colour confinement, these cannot exist individually.

If I understand correctly, there is a threshold where a pair of quark-antiquark are so distant from each other that they become "free". Which means being paired again. So what is this maximal distance between quarks? Doesn't it yield a fundamental value about the energy density of vacuum, from which the quarks and antiquarks are created during the hadronization?82.236.239.36 (talk) 13:31, 29 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Actually they behave like free quarks when they're close together (see Asymptotic freedom). As the quarks move further apart the binding energy increases until it's enough that new quarks are formed, resulting in hadronization. (see Color confinement) -- Tim314 (talk) 01:23, 16 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

The first paragraph has, "Due to postulated colour confinement, these cannot exist individually." The phrasing makes this sound like the postulate is the cause. Further, if it's only postulated, then it doesn't seem appropriate to say color confinement is the cause, rather that it's believed to be so.

I believe it should read, "According to postulated col...."131.167.254.100 (talk) 15:37, 14 August 2015 (UTC)Reply

• No, that wouldn't work. Color confinement is a phenomenon, though a postulated one; you don't say "according to gravity". (You can say, for example, "according to Newton's theory of gravity".) - Mike Rosoft (talk) 07:20, 1 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

I came here to find a reference list longer than the main text. I hope an expert in the field would find the time and the will to expand this article adding some concrete examples. 196.77.19.28 (talk) 08:37, 8 February 2025 (UTC)Reply