VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-08-16
“Traditionally, scientists have assumed that each of the three main 'valence' quarks inside a proton or neutron carries one-third of the baryon number,”
Zhangbu Xu · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-16
Xu describes the traditional textbook assumption that each valence quark carries one-third of the baryon number.
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