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mr_toad • yesterday at 4:30 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

It gets complicated, because protons and anti-protons are composite particles.

To simplify somewhat, one quark from each will annihilate, leaving four quarks and a lot of energy, which re-arrange into mesons (two quarks each), which then decay into photons, electrons, positrons and neutrinos.