Scientists model the 'flicker' of gluons in subatomic smashups
Tuesday, August 2, 2016 - 17:01
in Physics & Chemistry
A new study reveals that a high degree of gluon fluctuation -- a kind of flickering rearrangement in the distribution of gluon density within individual protons -- could help explain some of the remarkable results at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider -- and also in nuclear physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.