What type of scattering established the existence of quarks?
Rayleigh Scattering
Mie Scattering
Tyndall Scattering
Deep Inelastic Scattering
Answer
Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) experiments provided crucial evidence for the existence of quarks. In DIS, a beam of high-energy electrons is directed at a target, such as a proton. If the proton were simply a point-like particle, the electrons would scatter elastically without any significant energy loss. However, the observed scattering patterns indicated that the proton had an internal structure, with point-like constituents called partons.
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