{"id":161318,"date":"2023-03-30T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/experiment-finds-gluon-mass-in-the-proton"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T19:23:46","slug":"experiment-finds-gluon-mass-in-the-proton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/experiment-finds-gluon-mass-in-the-proton","title":{"rendered":"Experiment finds gluon mass in the proton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experiment-finds-gluon-mass-in-the-proton3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear physicists may have finally pinpointed where in the proton a large fraction of its mass resides. A recent experiment carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has revealed the radius of the proton\u2019s mass that is generated by the strong force as it glues together the proton\u2019s building block quarks. The result was recently published in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest mysteries of the proton is the origin of its mass. It turns out that the proton\u2019s measured mass doesn\u2019t just come from its physical building blocks, its three so-called valence quarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you add up the Standard Model masses of the quarks in a proton, you only get a small fraction of the proton\u2019s mass,\u201d explained experiment co-spokesperson Sylvester Joosten, an experimental physicist at DOE\u2019s Argonne National Laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear physicists may have finally pinpointed where in the proton a large fraction of its mass resides. A recent experiment carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has revealed the radius of the proton\u2019s mass that is generated by the strong force as it glues together the proton\u2019s building [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}