A University of Kansas physicist played a leading role in a CERN study showing that two rival explanations for how gluons ...

CERN’s ALICE experiment found that gluons behave differently at the smallest scales inside lead nuclei, favoring gluon ...

Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons ...

A key facet of a proton’s identity can be traced to the glue that holds it together. A new study suggests that a property called the baryon number — a defining characteristic of protons and related ...

Scientists have predicted the existence of a particle made of gluons for a long time, but detecting it has taken decades.

Scientists exploring the dynamic behavior of particles emerging from subatomic smashups at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)-a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility for ...

Why is there something rather than nothing? Philosopher Martin Heidegger called this "the first of all questions," and it has vexed scholars and theologians alike throughout history. Science has yet ...

"These results confirm our suspicion that a lot of the gluons' contribution to proton spin comes from the gluons with relatively low momentum," said Ralf Seidl, a physicist from the RIKEN-BNL Research ...

One of the great theoretical challenges facing physicists is understanding how the tiniest elementary particles give rise to most of the mass in the visible universe. A physicist from MIT will talk ...

The PHENIX detector at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider records many different particles emerging from RHIC collisions, including photons, electrons, muons, and ...

Combinations of three quarks (RGB) or three antiquarks (CMY) are colorless, as are appropriate combinations of quark/antiquark pairs. The gluon exchanges that keep these entities stable are quite ...