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=== Sea quarks ===
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Hadrons contain, along with the ''[[valence quark]]s'' ({{SubatomicParticle|valence quark}}) that contribute to their [[quantum number]]s, [[virtual particle|virtual]] quark–antiquark ({{SubatomicParticle|quark}}{{SubatomicParticle|antiquark}}) pairs known as ''sea quarks'' ({{SubatomicParticle|sea quark}}). Sea quarks form when a gluon of the hadron's color field splits; this process also works in reverse in that the [[annihilation]] of two sea quarks produces a gluon. The result is a constant flux of gluon splits and creations colloquially known as "the sea".<ref>
{{cite book
 |author=J. Steinberger
 |title=Learning about Particles
 |url=https://archive.org/details/learningaboutpar00stei_561
 |url-access=limited
 |page=[https://archive.org/details/learningaboutpar00stei_561/page/n136 130]
 |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]
 |year=2005
 |isbn=978-3-540-21329-1
}}</ref> Sea quarks are much less stable than their valence counterparts, and they typically annihilate each other within the interior of the hadron. Despite this, sea quarks can hadronize into baryonic or mesonic particles under certain circumstances.<ref>
{{cite book
 |author=C.-Y. Wong
 |title=Introduction to High-energy Heavy-ion Collisions
 |page=149
 |publisher=[[World Scientific]]
 |year=1994
 |isbn=978-981-02-0263-7
}}</ref>