{"id":214835,"date":"2025-05-27T01:15:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/first-of-its-kind-measurement-may-help-physicists-learn-about-gluons-which-hold-together-nuclei-in-atoms"},"modified":"2025-05-27T01:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:15:49","slug":"first-of-its-kind-measurement-may-help-physicists-learn-about-gluons-which-hold-together-nuclei-in-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/first-of-its-kind-measurement-may-help-physicists-learn-about-gluons-which-hold-together-nuclei-in-atoms","title":{"rendered":"First-of-its-kind measurement may help physicists learn about gluons, which hold together nuclei in atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-of-its-kind-measurement-may-help-physicists-learn-about-gluons-which-hold-together-nuclei-in-atoms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of physicists has embarked on a journey where few others have gone: into the glue that binds atomic nuclei. The resultant measurement, which was extracted from experimental data taken at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, is the first of its kind and will help physicists image particles called gluons.<\/p>\n<p>The paper revealing the results is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.201903\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> and featured as an editor\u2019s suggestion in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Gluons mediate the strong force that \u201cglues\u201d together quarks, another type of subatomic particle, to form the protons and neutrons situated at the center of atoms of ordinary matter. While previous measurements have allowed researchers to learn about the distribution of gluons in solitary protons or neutrons, they know less about how gluons behave inside protons or neutrons bound in nuclei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of physicists has embarked on a journey where few others have gone: into the glue that binds atomic nuclei. The resultant measurement, which was extracted from experimental data taken at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, is the first of its kind and will help physicists image particles called [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214835","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=214835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}