{"id":239051,"date":"2026-06-16T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/supercomputer-illuminates-subatomic-particle-that-helps-hold-matter-together"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:24:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:24:55","slug":"supercomputer-illuminates-subatomic-particle-that-helps-hold-matter-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/supercomputer-illuminates-subatomic-particle-that-helps-hold-matter-together","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputer illuminates subatomic particle that helps hold matter together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supercomputer-illuminates-subatomic-particle-that-helps-hold-matter-together2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers has leveraged a supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to reveal the internal structure of a pion in unprecedented detail. The findings are published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/JHEP02(2025)056\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Journal of High Energy Physics<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pions are subatomic particles that help bind matter at some of the smallest scales in nature. They are closely connected to the strong nuclear force, the fundamental force that holds protons and neutrons together inside atomic nuclei. Understanding how pions work can help scientists explain how matter forms at its most fundamental level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPions mediate the strong force that binds nucleons\u2014that is, the protons and neutrons that account for an atom\u2019s mass,\u201d said Yong Zhao, an Argonne physicist and principal investigator on the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers has leveraged a supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to reveal the internal structure of a pion in unprecedented detail. The findings are published in the Journal of High Energy Physics. Pions are subatomic particles that help bind matter at some of the smallest scales in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239051","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=239051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}