{"id":225399,"date":"2025-11-19T02:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/how-most-of-the-universes-visible-mass-is-generated-experiments-explore-emergence-of-hadron-mass"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:06:15","slug":"how-most-of-the-universes-visible-mass-is-generated-experiments-explore-emergence-of-hadron-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/how-most-of-the-universes-visible-mass-is-generated-experiments-explore-emergence-of-hadron-mass","title":{"rendered":"How most of the universe\u2019s visible mass is generated: Experiments explore emergence of hadron mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-most-of-the-universes-visible-mass-is-generated-experiments-explore-emergence-of-hadron-mass2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep in the heart of the matter, some numbers don\u2019t add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, nature\u2019s fundamental building blocks bound together by gluons, their masses are much larger than the individual quarks from which they are formed.<\/p>\n<p>This leads to a central puzzle \u2026 why? In the theory of the strong interaction, known as quantum chromodynamics or QCD, quarks acquire their bare mass through the Higgs mechanism. The long-hypothesized process was confirmed by experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and led to the Nobel Prize for Peter Higgs in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the inescapable issue remains that \u201cthis mechanism contributes to the measured proton and neutron masses at the level of less than 2%,\u201d said Victor Mokeev, a staff scientist and phenomenologist at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep in the heart of the matter, some numbers don\u2019t add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, nature\u2019s fundamental building blocks bound together by gluons, their masses are much larger than the individual quarks from which they are formed. This leads to a central puzzle \u2026 why? In the theory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225399","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=225399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}