Question

This phenomenon eventually breaks down above the Hagedorn temperature. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this phenomenon which arises when, after a certain point, it becomes more energetically favorable for a flux tube to “snap” rather than lengthen.
ANSWER: color confinement [accept quantum chromodynamics confinement]
[10e] Color confinement is predicted by quantum chromodynamics, the study of this fundamental force. Gluons mediate this force which binds together the quarks within protons and neutrons.
ANSWER: strong force [accept strong interaction; accept strong nuclear force]
[10m] This American physicist coined the word “quark.” His contributions to QCD include a namesake set of 8 matrices and the “fifth quantum number,” strangeness.
ANSWER: Murray Gell-Mann
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RITCornell Earth001010
Columbia Ly-αCornell Wind001010
Cornell FireRochester B0101020
Rochester ARochester C001010
MissouriChicago A10101030
Chicago DChicago B001010
Chicago CMichigan B0101020
Michigan AOhio State A1001020
SIUE BOhio State C0101020
Ohio State BPurdue C0101020
SIUE APurdue A0101020
WUSTLPurdue B0101020