Physicists Zoom in on Gluons' Contribution to Proton Spin
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 21:50
in Physics & Chemistry
By analyzing the highest-energy proton collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, nuclear physicists have gotten a glimpse of how a multitude of gluons that individually carry very little of the protons' overall momentum contribute to the protons' spin.