Meaning & use
Parton
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In particle physics, any of the point-like constituent particles, such as quarks and gluons, thought to make up hadrons like protons and neutrons.
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High-energy collisions allow physicists to probe the behavior of individual partons inside a proton.
The parton model helped explain the results of deep inelastic scattering experiments.
A note on using this word
The term was coined by physicist Richard Feynman in the late 1960s to describe the internal structure of hadrons.
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