{"id":201113,"date":"2024-12-09T23:15:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T05:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/theory-based-approach-gives-access-to-quarks-tiny-transverse-motion-within-protons"},"modified":"2024-12-09T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T05:15:12","slug":"theory-based-approach-gives-access-to-quarks-tiny-transverse-motion-within-protons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/theory-based-approach-gives-access-to-quarks-tiny-transverse-motion-within-protons","title":{"rendered":"Theory-based approach gives access to quarks\u2019 tiny transverse motion within protons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theory-based-approach-gives-access-to-quarks-tiny-transverse-motion-within-protons3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nuclear theorists at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory have successfully employed a new theoretical approach to calculate the Collins-Soper kernel, a quantity that describes how the distribution of quarks\u2019 transverse momentum inside a proton changes with the collision energy.<\/p>\n<p>The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.109.094506\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review D.<\/p>\n<p>The new calculation precisely matches model-based reconstructions from particle collision data. It is particularly effective for quarks with low transverse momenta, where earlier methods fell short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear theorists at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory have successfully employed a new theoretical approach to calculate the Collins-Soper kernel, a quantity that describes how the distribution of quarks\u2019 transverse momentum inside a proton changes with the collision energy. The research is published in the journal Physical Review D. The new calculation precisely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201113","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}