According to theoretical predictions, within a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, nucleons had not yet formed, and ...

Gluons can not only be exchanged between the individual gluons within a proton or neutron, but in combinations between protons and neutrons, leading to nuclear binding.

In fact, they estimate that gluons could supply as much as half of a proton’s spin. “This is the first evidence that suggests gluons could make a significant contribution to proton spin,” says team ...

Physicists zoom in on gluons' contribution to proton spin Date: February 22, 2016 Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory Summary: By analyzing the highest-energy proton collisions at the ...

Starring roles: members of the STAR collaboration Daniel Brandenburg and Zhangbu Xu photographed at the detector on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. (Courtesy: Brookhaven National Laboratory) ...

Investigating how gluons help protons get their spin New study shows that the spins of gluons align with the spin of the protons they are in An analysis by physicists of colliding protons is tackling ...

Finally, evidence has emerged of gluons' contribution to the proton spin. The results were published recently in Physical Review Letters by de Florian et al. de Florian is from the Department of ...

Phiala Shanahan has been awarded the Bragg Medal for best Australian PhD in Physics in 2016. Phiala is investigating a mysterious property of gluons, the subatomic particle found in protons.

Scientists seeking to explore the teeming microcosm of quarks and gluons inside protons and neutrons report new data delivered by particles of light. The light particles, or photons, come directly ...

Gluons, however, simply love sticking to things, and that's where glueballs come from. The problem, as Eric Swanson of the University of Pittsburgh told us, is that QCD is so damn hard to work with.