The Gluon Paradox: A Hidden Structure Reveals a Deeper Truth About Matter Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of matter.
Published in Science, the findings suggest that gluons play a more significant role than previously assumed in carrying baryon number.
The research proposes that a Y shaped junction of gluons connecting quarks within a proton is responsible for preserving its fundamental property.