Quark-Gluon Dynamics in SRCs (IMAGE)

DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Quark-Gluon Dynamics in SRCs

Caption

Short-range correlations are quantum mechanical fluctuations that occur between protons and neutrons when they’re close together and strongly interacting (left). In results published in Physical Review Letters, a team of nuclear and particle physicists provide evidence that these temporary pairings of protons and neutrons affect the distribution of their constituent quarks and gluons (right).

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Jefferson Lab

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