Scientists Gain New Insights into How Mass Is Distributed in Hadrons (IMAGE)

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Scientists Gain New Insights into How Mass Is Distributed in Hadrons

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The two-dimensional spatial distribution of mass due to gluons in the nucleon (left) and the pion (right), simulated at seven valence pion masses with lattice quantum chromodynamics.

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Image courtesy of Bigeng Wang

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