{"id":190208,"date":"2024-05-27T16:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T21:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/gluons-quarks-and-the-mystery-of-what-makes-a-proton-spin"},"modified":"2024-05-27T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T21:23:57","slug":"gluons-quarks-and-the-mystery-of-what-makes-a-proton-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/gluons-quarks-and-the-mystery-of-what-makes-a-proton-spin","title":{"rendered":"Gluons, quarks, and the mystery of what makes a proton spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gluons-quarks-and-the-mystery-of-what-makes-a-proton-spin3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, nuclear physicists have been working to uncover the mysterious origins of the proton\u2019s spin. According to a new study, they seem to have finally made some progress.<\/p>\n<p>By combining experimental data with state-of-the-art calculations, researchers have revealed a more detailed picture of the spin contributions from the very glue that holds protons together, paving the way for imaging the proton\u2019s 3D structure.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery of the proton\u2019s spin began in 1987 when measurements revealed that the proton\u2019s building blocks, its quarks, only provide about 30% of the proton\u2019s total measured spin. This unexpected finding left physicists wondering about the sources of the remaining spin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, nuclear physicists have been working to uncover the mysterious origins of the proton\u2019s spin. According to a new study, they seem to have finally made some progress. By combining experimental data with state-of-the-art calculations, researchers have revealed a more detailed picture of the spin contributions from the very glue that holds protons together, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190208","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}