{"id":242839,"date":"2026-08-18T01:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/gluons-may-play-a-central-role-in-baryon-number-conservation-and-matters-stability"},"modified":"2026-08-18T01:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:33:21","slug":"gluons-may-play-a-central-role-in-baryon-number-conservation-and-matters-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/gluons-may-play-a-central-role-in-baryon-number-conservation-and-matters-stability","title":{"rendered":"Gluons may play a central role in baryon number conservation\u2014and matter\u2019s stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gluons-may-play-a-central-role-in-baryon-number-conservation-and-matters-stability2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New results from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that gluons, the glue-like particles that hold quarks together inside protons, play a central role in the conservation of baryon number\u2014an essential part of a particle\u2019s quantum identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New results from the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) suggest that gluons, the glue-like particles that hold quarks together inside protons, play a central role in the conservation of baryon number\u2014an essential part of a particle\u2019s quantum identity.<\/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-242839","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\/242839","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=242839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}