# parton

> pointlike constituent (quark or gluon) of hadrons observable during high-energy hadron collisions that cause showers

**Wikidata**: [Q117483](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117483)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parton_(particle_physics))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/parton


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)