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by cohomologo
3063 days ago
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I think you've got that last part backwards. When you have constituents with binding energy, that reduces the total energy of the system and reduces the mass. So it seems that the mass of the proton is quark mass + gluon kinetic energy - bonding energy, and most of the mass comes from gluon kinetic energy. |
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Would like to understand that why does having constituents with binding energy reduce the total energy of the system instead of adding to it?