Tommy Tsang

“But if we look at details inside, there are not only three quarks but also a lot of gluons interacting, connecting between those quarks, and there are also quarks and antiquarks that pop up from the vacuum, so it's actually a really complex object.”

Tommy Tsang · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-16

Tsang explains that real protons contain gluons and vacuum quark-antiquark pairs, making them complex objects.

“In the STAR detector, we consistently see an excess of baryons coming out of the collisions perpendicular to the direction of the colliding beams,”

Tommy Tsang · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-16

Tsang describes the STAR detector's repeated observation of excess baryons perpendicular to the beams.

“In the naïve quark model, there are three quarks inside a proton, but nothing else,”

Tommy Tsang · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-16

Tsang describes the simplified naive quark model of the proton.

“The fact that we end up with more baryons than antibaryons -- or more matter than antimatter -- is not surprising since our collisions start with matter,”

Tommy Tsang · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-16

Tsang notes that more baryons than antibaryons is expected because the collisions start with matter.