{"id":213041,"date":"2025-05-02T01:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/calculating-the-strong-attraction-of-a-charming-particle"},"modified":"2025-05-02T01:12:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:12:19","slug":"calculating-the-strong-attraction-of-a-charming-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/calculating-the-strong-attraction-of-a-charming-particle","title":{"rendered":"Calculating the strong attraction of a charming particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/calculating-the-strong-attraction-of-a-charming-particle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A theoretical study by RIKEN physicists, <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0370269324007366\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physics Letters B<\/i>, has accurately determined the interaction between a charmonium and a proton or neutron for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>From two galaxies colliding to an electron jettisoned from a nucleus, all interactions in the universe can be described in terms of just four fundamental forces.<\/p>\n<p>Gravity and the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electromagnetic+force\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electromagnetic force<\/a> are the two we are familiar with in everyday life, while the weak and strong forces operate over minuscule distances\u2014roughly the size of an atomic nucleus or smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theoretical study by RIKEN physicists, published in Physics Letters B, has accurately determined the interaction between a charmonium and a proton or neutron for the first time. From two galaxies colliding to an electron jettisoned from a nucleus, all interactions in the universe can be described in terms of just four fundamental forces. Gravity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213041","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}