Correlated nucleons may solve 35-year-old mystery
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 16:50
in Astronomy & Space
A careful re-analysis of data taken as revealed a possible link between correlated protons and neutrons in the nucleus and a 35-year-old mystery. The data have led to the extraction of a universal function that describes the EMC Effect, the once-shocking discovery that quarks inside nuclei have lower average momenta than predicted, and supports an explanation for the effect.