A scientist uses an accelerator and high energy electrons to study the particles inside the protons of a helium atom. What particles is the scientist studying?

Protons are made of smaller particles called quarks, and high-energy electrons can probe the structure inside protons. The scientist is therefore studying the quarks in the helium protons. “He quarks” is the correct choice; electrons and neutrons are not the particles inside a proton.

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