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n. (label en physics dated or historical) Any of the constituent particles making up a compound particle, i.e. the quarks and gluons which make up hadrons.

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Parton (particle physics)

In particle physics, the parton model was proposed by Richard Feynman in 1969 as a way to analyze high-energy hadron collisions. It was later recognized that partons describe the same objects now more commonly referred to as quarks and gluons. Therefore a more detailed presentation of the properties and physical theories pertaining indirectly to partons can be found under quarks.

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Within another half-minute, Will Parton, Griff Merricks, his cameraman and sound recordist had all disappeared in search of the Executive dining room.

They bought a big house in Dyer, her hometown, opened the place in Alma, where Dolly Parton sang, as well as a smaller version of their Nashville country outfit store just across the road, and had a big truckload of food from their California farm delivered each week to feed them and their Arkansas contingent of young laborers.

Just up the road from Gatlinburg is the town of Pigeon Forge, which twenty years ago was a sleepy hamlet--nay, which aspired to be a sleepy hamlet--famous only as the hometown of Dolly Parton.