Current quark

As current quarks, the quarks are called hadrons in which almost behave as free particles at high energies due to the asymptotic freedom of the strong interaction. You will be one - assigned current quark mass - relatively small in the light up and down quarks.

However, they interact in the Hadron on the exchange of gluons with virtually generated quark-antiquark pairs ( sea quarks ), so that they have a much higher than constituent quarks Konstituentenquarkmasse, the proton about each 300 MeV / c ².

• Elementary